VEGETABLES, FRUIT, AND MEAT

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25679, 16 December 1948, Page 10

VEGETABLES, FRUIT, AND MEAT

On the present outlook oranges will be . missing from the shops during Christmas ( week, the next shipment from Australia 4 being due at Dunedin on December 23. , too late for Christchurch. Good stocks s of green bananas are behind count- j ers, and each day a quantity of the ripe , fruit is available. Apricots are now on . sale. ' ( Retailers' Prices j Bananas, per lb. 7Jd; lemons, per lb i lid; oranges (Australian), per lb 9d, is- . land 8d; grapefruit. New Zealand, P er , < 5d to 9d; apples, per lb, 6d to lettuce (each), 4d to is;-radish (bunch),,4o. ( cauliflowers (each), 4d to is; rhubarP (bunch), 8d to Is; onions, per lb. 6d and sd; potatoes, per lb, lid, or 81b Is, new potatoes, 4d and sd, or 3io for Is 3d; carrots, 6d bunch, cabbages, spring, 4d to 8d each; spmacn i (bunch). 6d to 8d; asparagus, bunch. Is 6d i to 2s; hothouse cucumbers, per lb, 2s to ’ 6d; hothouse tomatoes, local, from 2s 6d i per lb; green peas, per lb, 6d to Is, wh^ e < turnips (bunch), sd; broad beans, per lb, i 3d; spring onions (bunch), 4d; gooseper- < ries. per lb, Is to Is 3d; walnuts, per lb. i 2s 2d; strawberries, 3s to 4s a punnet, j cherries, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per lb; nwsh- , rooms. 2s 6d to 4s per lb; cherry plums, , Is 3d per lb; apricots, 2s per lb. Heavy grade, 2s locTa dozen; standard, i 2s 8d; medium, 2s 7d; pullets, 2s sd; i ducks, 2s Bd. Retail Meat Prices ] Veal.—Fillet, first grade, .HVzd per lb; < second grade, 9Jd pfir lb; loin, 9 1 ,ad, I stewing, 6»/ 2 d, s»,fcd; soup meat, 4Jd. 3«/ ad: steak, Is l*/ 2 d, 10y 2 d; rump steak, ,1s 3>, 2 d, i Is O’zfed; cutlets. Is 0* /2 d, 10‘,id; rolled. IOJd, B»,' 2 d: stuffed. Hid, 9d. 1 Beef.—Rump steak, first grade, Is 6d per : lb, second grade Is 3d; fillet, Is Bd, Is i 4’,:’d; porterhouse steak (bone in). Is 6d, i Is 3d, and bone out Is lOd, Is 6d; tenderboy steak. Is 2d, ll»/ 2 d; thick flank or- top rump steak, Is, 9id; chuck steak, 10id, 9d; blade or broiler steak. Is, lOd; sirloin, Is 2d, lllid; sirloin, rolled and boneless. Is sd, Is 2d; prime ribs. Is 9*/ 2 d; prime ribs, rolled and boneless. Is 2%d, Is; chuck ribs, B*,' 2 d, 7d; chuck ribs, rolled : and boneless, llid, 9*/ 2 d; back ribs, rolled and boneless, Is, lOd; wing ribs (bone in) Is 2d, lid, and bone out, Is 6d, Is 2id; blade, rolled and boneless, lid, 9d; topside, Is Id, lid; gravy beef and shin beef. S'/id, 7d; corned silverside. Is I l ,id, lid; rolled brisket, corned or otherwise, lOd. (Hid; brisket on the bone, S’zid, sd; flat ribbed, 6 l ,id, s’,id; legs and shins, whole. sd. 4 , / id; halves, thick end, SVzd. sd; knuckle end, sd, 4d; thin flanks, 4Jd, 4d; meat, B%d. Mutton. —Legs, whole. Is lid, second grade, lid; shank end, up to 61b, Is 2id, Is; thick end. Is I‘id, lid; middle fillet. Is 2’,id, Is. Forequarters: whole, Bd, 6‘ 2 d; shank end. B>,id. 7d; Spanish neck, 9*.id. Bd. Shoulders: whole, lOd. 7‘,id; shame end. 10>id. 8»id; blade end. lid. 9d; neck and breast, 7lid, 6Jd; neck, best end, 9d. . 7Jd; scrag end, 7 1 ,id, 6lid. Loin: middle. Is Id, 10’id; rib end, lid, 9d. Chops: middle-loin, Is 3d, Is Olid; rib, Is, lOd. Shoulder: trimmed, Is, lOd; leg or chump. ; Is 2lid, Is; Spanish neck, 10lid. Slid; stewing. lOd. 9lid: flaps. 6d. sd: flaps, whole. 4d 3|d. Cutlets: french. Is sd. Is 2d: ' stuffed, rolled. Is 3d, Is Oid. (Prices for third-grade mutton from Id to 2d below : second-grade schedule.) . Pork.—Stuffed. Is 6lid, Is 3d; rolled, Is Slid, Is 2lid; leg, Is 3lid, Is Olid: loin. . Is 3lid. Is Olid. Chops: loin, Is slid. Is 24d; foreloin. Is 2d, Is. Foreloin. Is ll 2 d. lid; hand, Is, 10d; belly. Is 2d, lllid. LINEN THREAD INDUSTRY PROJECT FOR NEW SOUTH WALES SYDNEY, December 15. Supervision of the planning of an addi- | tional manufacturing unit in New South Wales is the reason for the visit to Australia of Mr C. H. K. Finlayson, managing director of Finlayson Bousfield Company, Ltd., linen thread manufacturers, of Scotland, and a director of Linen Thread Company, Ltd., of Glasgow, which is financially interested in Frank and Bryce. Ltd., New Zealand, and Bryce Bentley Proprietary, Ltd., Australia.