HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1937, Page 10

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN.

WEEK-END PRICES IN SHOPS. FIRST SUMMER FRUIT. STRAWBERRIES AND TOMATOES. The first of the summer fruit—strawberries and tomatoes —are now ripening in larger quantities, and this week prices of both have gone down. Most imported fruit, including pineapples and grapes, are dearer, while bananas are still high. The shortage of lettuce bas been alleviated, and increasing supplies of new potatoes have bi ought them down to 3d a lb. The reduction in mutton prices announced last week has come into effect and the new rates are as below. Current prices in city shops are as follows:— Fruit. Apples: Californian Mackintosh, red, 2d each; Taema, 2d each; Sturmere, 5d Fer lb; Delicious, 4d and 5d per lb; ears: Cooking, 4d per lb; Winter Cole, 6d. Local grapefruit: 9d to 1/6 dozen; Jamaican, 3d to 4d each. Oranges: Australian Valencias, 2/ to 2/fi dozen. Passion fruit: 2/ to 3/ per dozen. Lemons: 6d to 1/. Bananas: 4d and 6d per lb. Tomatoes: Island, 1/6 Per lb; hothouse, 2/ per lb. Coconuts: 4d to fid each. Pineapples: Queensland, 1/9 to 2/; Island, 1/ each. Tree tomatoes: 1/ per lb. Mushrooms: Cultivated, 4/ per lb. Grapes: Malaga, 1/8 per lb; Ribiers, 2/; Emperor, 1/6. Plums: Californian, 1/3 per lb. Mangoes: 1/ each. Strawberries: 2/ to 3/ a chip. Pawpaws: 1/ to 1/6 each.

Vegetables. Kumarai, 3d per lb; onions, Australian and local, 4d; rhubarb, 4d and 6d a bunch; ■white turnips, radish. 2d; beet, 3d bunch; cabbages, 4d to 6d; cauliflowers, 6d to lOd; lettnce, 3d to 4d; spinach, 2d bunch; pumpkins, 6d lb; potatoes, 2d to 3d, new 3d; carrots, 3d bunch; parsnips, 4d; asparagus, 8d to 1/ per bunch; cucumbers, hothouse, 1/ to 1/3 each. Fish. Snapper and tarakihi, whole, fid per lb; fillets, lOd; smoked. lOd; skinned fillets, with wings lid, without wings 1/; steaks, 8d; tarakihi kippered fillets, 1/3; trevalli, 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 fld each, Auckland 10d 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; cod, fresh, 9d per lb; smoked, 1/3 per lb; gurnard, whole, 2d; fillets, VAd each; smoked, 6d; barracouta, whole sd, fillets fid per lb, smoked 8d; cream fish, l%d each; frostfish, fid per lb; hake, whole fid per lb, smoked 8d; kippers, Scotch, 1/ per pair; crayfish, 9d lb; smoked hapuka, 1/3; mussels, fresh, 1/6 per dozen; rabbits, lid each; cod fillets, Scotch, 1/6 per lb; smoked bloaters, three for 1/: giblets, 8d per lb; mutton birds, 1/; Stewart Island oysters, 1/3 a dozen on shell; whitebait, 7/ lb.

Meat. Beef. — Rump steak, 1/4 per lb; undercut, 1/6: beef steak, 8d; eirloin, 10(1; prime ribs Bd, boned and rolled lOd; wing ribs (three chine bones), fid; topside (41b and over), 7d; bolars7d; chuck rib, sd; rolled back rib, 8d; corned round, 9d: corned brisket (boned), 6d; brisket and flat rib, 4d; thin flank, 3d; gravy beef or shin beef, 6d; minced beef, 6d; tripe, fid; dripping, 6d; suet, 4d; sausages, 6d; sausage meat, sd; whole shina or legß, 2d; half shine or leg* (thick end), 2%d; half shins or lega (knuckle end), 2d; ox kidneys, 1/; ox tongues, lOd; ox tails, 6d; whole loins, 9d; whole rumps, lOd. Mutton.—Sides, 7d per lb; whole legs, 9d; cut legs, 9V4d; leg, shank end (61b or under), 10d; hindquarter, 8d: forequarter, 6d; shoulder, 7d: shank end of forequarter, 6Hd; neck* (best end), "d: necks (scrag end). 6d; loin, B'/fcd; middle loin chop*, 1/; leg chops, lid; rib chops, lOd; neck chops (best end), 8d; stewing chops, 6d; flaps, 3d; cutlets (trimmed), 1/2; sheep's fry, 8d; kidneys. 3d each: tongues, 3d each; sheep's head (dressed), 6d; sheep's brains. 2d. Veal.—Fillets, lid; loin, lOd; shoulder. 7d; cutlets and veal steak, 1/1; chops, 1/; forequarterg, 6d; rolled veal, 9d; veal tamp steak. 1/3.

Pork.—Leg, 1/; loin, 1/; foreloin, with blade, lOd; pork chops, 1/1; corned hand, lOd: corned belly, 1/; pork sauaages, 9d. These are cash prices at the shops, booking and delivery being a penny a lb extra. Bacon and Ham. Bacon.—Shoulder rashers, 1/3 per lb; rashers, 1/6; by piece, shoulder cut, lOd to 1/2. Ham.—Slices (cooked), 2 ; 8 per lb; whole hams, 1/5; half hams, 1/6. Butter and Cheese. Butter.—Factory, first grade, per lb; second grade, 1/3HCheese.—Mild, 10d; tasty, 1/6. Ebb*. First grade hen, 1/6 per dozen; B grade, 1/5; duck, 1/6.