HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 11

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

WEEK-END PRICES IN SHOPS. BANANAS CHEAP. LARGE SUPPLIES ARRIVE. Owing to the arrival within a few days of each other last week of two ships laden with bananas —the Waipahi from Fiji and the Port Whangarei from Tonga—there are large supplies of bananas in Auckland which are coming on to the market as fast as they ripen, and are selling very cheaply, though the quality is good. Retail "prices are again lower than they were last week, some of the fruit being marked at 2d alb the cheapest that it has been for a long time. Larger supplies of local grape fruit are now coming on the market, and prices are lower. The prices of mpst other varieties of fruit and vegetables remain unaltered from last week. Quotations are: — Eggs. First grade hen eggs, 2/6 per dozen; duck, 2/2 per dozen. Bacon and Hams. Bacon, in cuts, 9d to 1/1 per II) 5 rashers, 1/4; whole hams, 1/2% per lb; ham rashers, 1/5 per lb. Butter and Cheese. First grade factory butter, 1/1 per lb; second grade, lid per lb; farmers' butter, 9d 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; cookers, 3d per lb; pears, 3d to 4d; oranges, 1/0 to 2/6 per dozen; lemons, 1/ to 1/0 per dozen; bananas, 2d and 3d per lb; tomatoes, 8d to 1/ per lb; pines, 1/G to 2/6 each; Jamaican and Cahfornian grape fruit, Gd each; local grape fruit, 1/ to 2/ per dozen; hothouse grapes, 1/6 to 3/ per lb; mandarins, 1/ to 1/6 per dozen; tree tomatoes, 4d to 6d per lb. Vegetables. Potatoes, 2d lb; kumaras, 2d lb; onions, 2d and 3d per lb; cabbage, 3d to 6d each; cauliflower, 4d to lOd each; lettuce, 2d to 3d; carrots, parsnips, beet, spinacti. leeks, radish, l%d per bundle; hothouse beans, 1/ per lb; outdoor beans, 8d to lOd a lb; marrows. 2d to 6d each; pumpkin, l%d to 2d per lb; celery, 2d to 4d a head; ehokos. Id and 2d each; artichokes, 2d per lb; silver beet, 2d per bunch; hothouse cucumbers, 8d each. Meat. (Cash at shops.) Beef.—Rump steak, 1/ per lb; undercut, 1/2; beef steak, 6d; stewing steak, 6d; sirloin, B%d; prime ribs, 6d; prime ribs (boned , and rolled), 8d; wing ribs (3 chine bonee'), TMsd; topside (41b and over), sd; thick flank, sd; bolars, sd; double top rib, 4ted; chuek rib, 4d: rolled back rib. 6d; corned round, 7d; corned brisket (boned), sMsd; brisket and flat rib. 3%d; thin flank, 2d; gravy beef or ehin meat, 4d; minced beef, 4d; tripe, Gd; drippinn. Cd; suet, 4d; sausages, sd; sausage meat, 4d; whole shins or legs, l%d; half shins or legb (thick end), 2d; half shins or legs (knuckle end), l%d; ox kidneys, 1/; ox tongues, 7rf; ox tails, Gd; whqle loins. 7d; whole rumps, Bd. Mutton.—Sides, 7%d per lb; whole legs, B%d; cut iegs, ud; leg, shank end (61b oi under), 9%d; hindquarter. 8d: forequarter 6d; shoulder, 7d; shank end of foreqtfarter, 6V£d; necks (best end), 7d; necks (scrag end), 0d; loin, middle loin chops, lid; leg and rib chops, Od; neck chops (best end), 8d; stewing chops, 6d; flaps, 3d; cutlets (trimmed), 1/1; sheep's fry, 6d; kidneys, 3d each; tongues, 3d; sheep's head (dressed), 6d; sheep's brains. 2d. v Veal.—Fillets, 8d per lb; loins, 6d; shoulder, 4d'; cutlets and veal steak, IOd;

Pork.—Leg, iffd; loin, lOd; foreloin -with blade, 8d; pork chops, Ud; corned hand. 8d; corned belly, 10d; pork sausages, 7d.