HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 83, 9 April 1937, Page 10

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

WEEK-END PRICES IN SHOPS. ONIONS RISE SHARPLY. Fruit is now lees plentiful in the city, with the season over for peaches and plums. Practically the only oranges available are a few Sunkist, selling at 3d each. Fresh supplies are expected in about a week's time, and the first of the Cook Island fruit should arrive soon after. Bananas are fairly plentiful, with the retail rate down 4d a lb. For A grade hen and duck eggs prices are unchanged at 2/8 a dozen, but B grade are up a penny to 2/6. iish, meat, butter and cheese are unchanged, as follows: — Fruit. Apples, Jonathan, 4d per lb;' Delicious, 3d lb; Northern Spy, 4d lb; Cox's Orange, 5d lb; Ballarats, cooking, 3d lb; Louis Bon pears, fld lb; cooking, 4d lb; oranges, Sunkist, 5d each; {Mission fruit, 1/ dozen; lemons, 1/ to 1/6; bananas, 3d to 5d lb; tomatoes, outdoor, first grade, 4d to 6d lb; coconuts, 4d to 6d each; pineapples, Queensland variety, 1/3 to 2/; hothouse grapes, 2/ to 2/6 lb; rock melons, 1/ to 2/6 each. Vegetables. Kumarae, 2d lb; onions, local, 3d lb; rhubarb, 3d and 4d bunch; spring onions, radish, parsnips, beet, carrots, l%d; cabbages, 4d to 6d; cauliflowers, 6d to 8d each; lettuce, 2d to 3d; spinach, Had bunch; silver beet, 3d bunch; pumpkins J 2d to 3d lb; marrows, Id lb: peas, 4d to .id lb; new potatoes, Id to !%d lb; outdo.>r beans, 6d lb; cauliflowers, Ohakuue, 4d to 6d; cucumbers, 4d to 6d. Fish. Snapper and tarakihi, whole, 6d per lb; fillets, 10d; smoked, lOd; skinned fillets, with wings, lid; without wings, 1/; steaks, 8d; tarakilii kippered fillets, 1/3; trevall;, whole, 7d each; smoked, 8d; smoked fillets, 4d and sd; John Dory, fillets, 1/2; mullet, whole, Kaipara, 5d each; Auckland, 7d per lb; smoked, Kaipara, 0d each; Auckland, lOd per lb; flounder, 1/ per lb; lemon fish, 5d per lb; silverstrip, 6d per lb; hapuka steaks, 1/2 per lb; smoked, 1/3; moki steaks, 8d per lb; smoked, 9d; kingfish steaks, 8d per lb; smoked, 9d; salmon, 1/9 per lb; halibut, 1/4 per lb; cod, fresh, 9d per lb; suioked, 1/3; gurnard, whole, 2d; fillets, IVid each; smoked, sd; barracouta, whole, sd; fillets, (id per lb; smoked, 8d; cream fish, l&d each; frostfish, 6d per lb; hake, whole, 6d per lb; smoked. Sd; kippers, Scotch, 1/ per pair; crayfish, 9d per lb; smoked snapper roes, 2/6 per lb; fresh snapper roes, 2/; smoked hapuka, 1/3; mussels, fresh, 1/6 per dozen; rabbits, lOd each; cod fillets, Scotch, 1/6 per lb; smoked bloaters, three for 1/; giblets, 8d per lb; mutton birds, lOd. | Meat. j Beef.—Rump steak. 1/2 per lb; under- ! cut, 1/4; beef steak, 7d; sirloin, 9d; j prime ribs, 7d; prime ribs (boned and j rolled), 9d; wing ribs (3 chine bones). 8d; topside (41b and over), 6V6d; bolars, 6'/6d; chuck rib, sd; rolled back rib, 7d; corned round, 8d; corned brisket (boned), 6d; brisket and flat rib, 4d; flank, 3d; gravy beef or shin meat. sd; minced beef, sd; tripe, 6d; dripping, 6d; suet, 4d; sausages, 0d; sausage meat, sd; whole shins or legs, 2d; half shine or legs (thick end), 2%d; half shins or legs (knuckle end), 2d; ox kidneys, 1/;' ox tongues, 9d; ox tails. 6d; whole loins, 8\&d; whole rumps; 9Vid. Mutton.—Sides. B%d per lb; whole legs. 9%d; cut legs, lOd; shank end (61b and under), 10% d; hindquarter, 9d; forequarter, 7d; shoulder, 8d; shank end of forequarters. 7&d; neck (best end), Bdscrag end, 7d; !oin, B%d; middle loin ™? ps > legs, scrag end, 7d; chops. lOd; rib chops. lOd; neck chopß (best end). 9d; stewing chops. 7d; flaps, 4d; cutlets (trimmed). 1/2; sheep's fry, 8d; kidneys. 3d each; tongues, 3d; sheep's head (dressed). 6d; sheep's brains. 2d. Veal. —Fillets, lOd; loin, 9d; shoulder, fld; cutlets and veal steak, 1/; chops, lid; forequarters. sd; rolled veal, Bd. Pork.—Leg, lOd: loin,-10d; foreloin, with blade, Sd; pork choos, lid; corned hand, 8d: corned belly. 10d: pork sausages, 8d Lamb.—Forequarters. 9d; loins. 1/2; lamb chops. 1/3; hindquarters, 1/1; lees. 1/3: sides, lid. These are cash prices at the shops, booking and delivery being a penny a pound extra. 4 Bacon and Ham. Bacon.—Shoulder rashers, ltd per lb; rashers. 1/4; by piece, shoulder cut. 8d to 1/. Ham.—Slices, 1/5; whole hams. 1/3; lialf-hams. 1/4. < Butter and Cheese. Butter .-Factory, first grade. 1/4 per lb; second grade. 1/3; third grade, 1/2%; farm butter, lid per lb. Cheese.—Mild, lOd; tasty. 1/6. * Ebbs. Duck, 2/8 dozen;' hen, first grade. 2/8" B grade, 2/6.