HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1934, Page 2

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

WEEK-END PRICES. CAULIFLOWERS UNOBTAINABLE. HEN EGGS CHEAPER. Most fruit is marked at prices about the same as those of last week, though cherries are a lot cheaper, being now obtainable at from 1/6 to 2/ a lb according to quality, while bananas are slightly dearer, Deing now marked in most shops at 6d a lb. Both cauliflower and asparagus are now unobtainable, but marrow are more plentiful than they have been, and are selling more cheaply, prices ranging from 4d to 6d each. There has been a rise iu' the price of green peas and runner beans, the former now costing Sd a lb, and the latter 4d a lb. While duck eggs remain at 1/3 a .lozen hen eggs are a penny a dozen cheaper than they were last week, being nowobtainable at 1/3 and 1/-4 a dozen. Quotations are: — Egos. First grade hen epgs, 1/3 to L/i per dozen; duck, 1/3 per dozen. Bacon and Hams. Bacon, 111 cuts, 9d to J./1 per lb; rasher 6, 1/3; whole hams, 1/1 per lb; ham rashers, 1/4 per lb. Butter and Cheese. First grade factory butter, 1/ per lb, cash across the counter, Id extra when booked; second grade, iod per lb; farmers' butter, 8d per lb. Cheese: Mild, full cream, 8d to 1/ per lb; medium, matured, 1/ to 1/3 per lb. Fruit. Dessert apples, 3d to 4d per lb; cookeis. 2d to 3d per lb; Winter Cole and Winter Nelis pears, 5d tier lb; Jamaican oranges and Sunkist oranges, 4/ per iozen; lemons, 1/ to 1/6 per dozen; bananas, 6d per lb; hothouse tomatoes, 1/ to 1/4 per lb; outdoor, 6d to 1/; pines, 2/ to 2/0 each; Californian grapefruit, 6d each; Californian white grapes, 1/2 per lb; coloured, 1/; gooseberries, 4d per lb; strawberries, 9d to 1/ per box; Captain Cook, 1/2; cherries, 1/6 to 2/ per lb; peaches, 1/6 to 2/ per dozen; plums, 6d per lb; red currants, lOd per lb; apricots, 8d per lb; loganberries, Sd to 1/ per box., - Vegetables. Local new potatoes, Id per lb; onions, 2d per lb; cabbage, 4d each; lettuce, 3d to 4d each; carrots, parsnips, beet, spinach, leeks, radish, bundle; kuniaras,-local, 2d lb, Island 3d; green peas, Sd per lb; runner beans, 4d per lb; broad beans, 2d to 3d per lb; 'narrows, 4d to (3d eatii; cucumbers, 3d to 6d each. Meat. (Cash at shops.) Beef.—Rump steak, 1/ per lb; undercut, 1/2; beef steak, 6d; stewing steak, sd; sirloin, BV2d; prime ribs, 6d; prime ribs (boned and rolled), Sd; wing ribs (three chine bones), 7Vfcd; topside (41b and over),. sd; ■ thick flank, sd; bolars, 5Hd; double top rib, 4V£d; chuck rib, 4d; rolled back rib, 6d; corned round, 7d; corned brisket (boned), 5%d; brisket and fiat rib, 3%d; thin flank, 2d; gravy beef or shm meat, 4d; minced beef, 4d; tripe, 6d; dripping, sd; suet, 4d; sausages, sd; sausage meat, 4d; whole shins or legs. l%d; iialtshins or legs (thick end), 2d; half-shins or legs (knuckle end), l%d; ox kidneys, 1/; ox tongues, 7d; ox tails, 6d; whole !oms, 7d: whole rumps, Sd. Mutton.—Sides, 7d per lb; whole legs, 8d; cut legs, BV2d; leg, shank end (61b or under), Od: hindquarter, 7d; forequarter, 6d; shoulder, 7d; shank end of torequarter, 6d; necks, 6d; loin, 8d; middle loin chops, lOd; leg and rib chops, 8d; neck chops (best end), 7d; stewing chops, 6d; flaps, 3d; cutlets (trimmed), 1/; sheep's fry, 6d; kidneys, 2d each; tongues, 2d each; sheep's head (dressed), 5d each; sheep's brains, 2d each. Veal—Fillets, 7d; loins, sd; shoulder, 4d; cutlets and veal steak, 8d; chops, 6d; forequarters, 3d: rolled veal. sd. Pork.—Leg, lOd; loin, lOd; forelcin with blade. Sd; pork chops, lid; coined hand, Sd; corued belly, lOd; pork sausages, 7d.