HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1938, Page 10

HOUSEWIVES' COLUMN

WEEK-END PRICES IN SHOPS. BANANAS SELLING CHEAPLY. ' TOMATOES IX FULL SEASON*. The season for most early summer fruit, such as strawberries, gooseberries and loganberries, is nearly finished. l_he strawberries still on fhe market are of poor quality, selling from 1, 6 to "2, a chip. Tomatoes are very plentiful, and the gathering of the main outdoor crop is now in full swing. Prices are less than half those of a week ago, ranging from 4d to 6d a lb. New season's cooking apples are cheaper at 4d a lb, and among the dessert varieties cool-stored Delicious are also down to -kl, though quality is poor. Carrots and parsnips are slightly dearer, but peas have dropped to 4d a lb. Bananas are very plentiful and cheap. Current prices in city ehop-s are as follows: — Fruit. Apples: Xew season's, cooking, Mobbs Royal, -id per lb; Canadian Jonathan. Delicious, each; Tasma, txl per lb; Stunners, tid per lb; Delicious, -kl per lb. Local grapefruit: ~ ti per dozen, Sunkist •3d each. Oranges: Sunkist, 3/ per dozen; •Jamaican, 2 to 3 per dozen; Australian Valencia*-, 3, . Lemons: 1 t>; Sunkist. 3 per dozen. Bananas: 3d and W per lb. Tomatoes: Outdoor, 4d and 6d. Coconuts: 4d to 6d each. Pineapples: Island. 8d to 1 each: Island Queen pineapples, 1 6 to 2 6 each. Grapes: Hothouse. 2 6 per 11). I'lums: Local. Wilson's Early. 6d to 8d per lb; cooking. 4d. Strawberries: 1 6 to 2 per chip. Watermelons: 4d a lb. Pawpaws. 1 to 2 6. Peaches: Six a 1. . Apricots: 1 iXI to 1 . Vegetables. Kumaras, 4d per lb; onions, Australian and local. 4<l; white turnips, radish, 2d: beet, md bunch: lettuce. 3d to 4d : pumpkins. 3d lb: potatoes. 2d: peas. 4<l II) : carrots and parsnips. 3d bunch: cucumbers, hothouse. 6d each, outdoor 3d and 4<l each; beans, 3d and 4d lb: marrows, 6d to Sd. Fish. Snapper and tarakihi, whole, 6d per lb; | fillets, lOd; smoked, lOd; skinned fillets. | with wings lid, without wings 1/; steaks. ! Bci; tarakihi kippered fillets, 1/3; trevalli, | whole, 7d eac-h; smoked, 8d; smoked fillets. | 4d and 3d; John Dory, fillets, 1/2; mullet, j whole, Kaipara od each, Auckland 7d per |lb; smoked, Kaipara 9d each, Auckland lOd per lb; flounder, 1/ per lb; lemon fish, 5d per lb; eilverstrip, 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, l%d each: smoked, sd; barracouta, whole od, fillets 6d per lb, smoked 8d; cream fish, each; frostfish, 6d per lb; hake, whole 6d 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: "indercut, 1/6; beef steak, 8d; sirloin. lOd; prime ribs Bd. boned and rolled lOd; wing ribs (three chine bones), 9d; topside f4H> and over), 7d; bolars. 7d: chuck rib. sd: rolled back rib, 8d: corned roujid. 9d: corned brisket ("boned). 6d : brisket and Pat rib. 4d: thin flank. 3d: zravv beef or shin beef, 6d: minced beef. 6d: tripe, 6d; dripping, 6d; suet, 4d: sausages, 6d; sausage meat. sd; whole shins or legs, 2d: half shins or legs (thick end), 2*4 d; half shins or legs (knuek'e end), 2d; ox kidnevs. 1'; ox tongues, lOd; ox ta;ls, 6-d; whole loins, 9d; whole rumps, lOd. Mutton.—Sides. 7d per lb: whole legs. Od: cut leers, S^brl: les. shank end (61b or under). lOd: hindquarter. 8a: forequarter, 6d: shoulder, 7d: shank end of forequarter. 6%d: necks (best end). 7d: necks (sc-raz end). 6d: loin, S^d: middle loin chops. 1/; kg chops, lid: rib chops, lOd; neck (best end), 8d: stewing chops. 6d: flaps. 3d: cutlets (trimmed), 1/2; sheep's I fry. 8d: kidneys. 3d each: tongues. 3d i each; sheep's head (dressed), 6d;~ sheep's | brains. 2d. New Season's Lamb.—Hindquarters. 1 '2: forequarters. lid: legs, 1, .5; loins, 1 2: sidt*;. 1 '; chops, 1 '4. Veal.—Fillets, lid: loin, I<V3: shoulder. 7d: cutlets and veal stenk. l'l; chops, 1': forequarters. 5.1; rolled veal, 9.1; veal j rump steak. 1 '3. [ I'm k - Letr. lid: loin, lid: foreluin. witli blade. fM : j>oi k chons. 1 : corned hand. |9d: corned bellv. lid: pork sausages. SI. | These are cash prices at the shops. I booking and delivery being a pennv a lb extra. Bacon and Ham. Bacon.—Shoulder rashers. 1/3 per lb: rashers, 1/6; by piece, shoulder cut, lCd to 1/2. Ham.—Slices (cookedl. 2 1 per lb: whole hams. 1 '4; half hams, 1/3. Butter and Cheese. Butter.—Factory, first grade, 1/4% per lb: second grade. 1/3%. Cheese.—M:kl, lOd; tasty, 1/6. Eggs. First her, 1 8 per dozen; B crrade, 1/7; duck, 1,7.