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VEGETABLES FRUIT, AND MEAT

A shipment of bananas arrived unexpectedly yesterday. The fruit is green and in good condition. The shops are bare of oranges and lemons are scarce. Greengages and new season’s pears are on sa<e. There is a plenitude of all vegetables and fruit in season. Retailers* Prices Oranges (Jamaican) 9d per lb; apples, Delicious, 6d per lb; new season’s Gravenstein, 9d per lb; lettuce(each), 4d to 6d; cauliflowers (each), 6d to 2s; rhubarb (burfeh), 6d to Is; onions, per lb, 6d; carrots, per lb, 6d; drumhead cabbage, 8d to Is each; spinach (bunch), 6d; tomatoes, hothouse, Is to 2s 3d per lb, and Nelson tomatoes. Is to is 6d per lb; new potatoes, 4d per lb; walnuts, 2s per lb; green peas, 8d to Is 3d per lb; spring onions (bunch), 4d to 6d; cucumbers, Is to 2s per lb; radish, 4d to 6d bunch; spring turnips, 6d bunch; strawberries (punnet), 4s 6d to 7s 6d; beetroot, 6d a bunch; plums, 9d to Is 3d per lb; raspberries (punnet), 2s 6d and 3s 6d; peaches, Is to Is 6d per lb; apricots. Is to 2s per lb; vegetable marrows, Is to Is 6d; nectarines, Is 3d to 2s per lb; french beans and runner beans, Is to Is 3d per lb; pumpkins, 6d per lb; mushrooms, 4s Od per lb; grapes, 5s 6d to 7s 6d per ibf bananas, 7jd per lb; greengages. Is 3d to Is 6d per lb; Bon Chretien pears (new season’s). Qd per lb. * ■'•eat Prices Prices as under for the period up to June 30 are set out in Price Order No. 1103: Veal.—Fillet, first grade, Hid per lb; second grade, 9id per lb; loin, 9Jd, 7Jd; stewing, 6d, sd; soup meat, 4d, 3d; steak, Is Oid, 10id; rump steak. Is 3|d, Is o}d; cutlets. Is Mid; rolled, 10d» 8d; stuffed, lid, 9d. ‘ Beef.—Rump steak, first grade. Is 7d; second grade. Is 3id; fillet steak, undercut, Is 9d, Is sd; porterhouse steak (bone in), Is 6d, Is 3d; bone out, Is lOd, Is 6d; tenderboy steak. Is 2d, Hid; thick flank or top rump steak, Is lid, lid; topside steak, Is lid, lid; skirt steak, Is, JOd; chuck steak, lid, 9d; blade or bolar steak, Is lOd; stuffed, respective prices for steaks are increased by let per lb; sirloin, Is 2d, Hid; sirlpin, rolled and boneless. Is sd, Is 2d; prime ribs, 11d,,8d; prime ribs, rolled and boneless, Is 2d, lljd; chuck ribs, Bid, 7d; chuck ribs, rolled and boneless. Hid. 9id; wing ribs (bone in). Is lAd, lid; bone out, Is sid, Is 2Jd: blade rolled and boneless, 10id, Bid: back-rißc' rolled and boneless, Hid, 9Jd; topside. Is Id, lid; gravy beef and shin beef, 9d, 7id; corned silverside, is lid, lid; rolled brisket, corned or otherwise, lOd. Bid: brisket on the bone, corned or otherwise, sid, 4id: flat rib. 6d. sd; legs and shins, whole, 4id, 4d; halves (thick end), sd, 4id; knuckle end, 4id, 4d; thin flank, 4d, 3id (prices for third grade beef id to 3|d, per lb below second grade schedule).’ Pork.—Htuffer, first grdde, Is 7d per lb: second grade, Is 3id per lb; rolled, is Is 3d; leg. Is 4d. Is Id; loin. Is 4d, Is Id; chops, loin. Is 6d. Is 3d; chops, foreloin. Is 3d, Is; foreloin. Is 2d, Hid; corned hand. Is Oid, lid; corned belly, Is 2d, Hid. Lamb. —Forequarter, first grade. Is Id per lb; second grade, 10id per lb; hindquarter, Is 3id, Is Oid leg, Is 6d, Is 3d; loin. Is 6d, Is 3d; loin, rib end. Is 4d, Is Id: chops, Is 6d. Is 3d. Mutton.—Side, first grade. 9 id per lb; second grade, per lb; legs, whole, Is 2d, Hid; legs, shank end (up to 61b) Is 3d, Is; legs, thick end, Is 2d, Hid; middle fillet, Is 3d, Is; forequarters, whole, Bjd,. 7d; forequarters, shank end, 9d, "id; Spanish neck, lOd, Bid; shoulders, whole. 10id. Aid; shoulders, shank end, lid, 9d; shoulders, blade end. Hid, 9id; neck and breast, Bd, 6id; neck, best end, 9id, 8d;, neck, scrag end, Bd, 6id; loin, middle, Is lid, lid; loin, rib end. Hid, 9id; chops, loin. Is 3id, Is Oid; rib, Is Oid. lid; shoulder, trimmed, Is Oid, lid; leg or chump. Is 3d, Is Oid; Spanish neck, ltd 9d; stewing, 10id, Bid; flap. sid, 4id; flap®, whole, 2id, 2d; flaps, stuffed and rolled, Bd, 6id; culets, French, Is sd, Is 2d; stuffed, rolled, excluding flaps. Is 3dHogget Mutton.—The respective prices for first grade mutton are increased in every case by Id per lb. Third grade mutton, from par to 2|d per lb cheaper than second grade. Eggs Heavy grade, 2s 9d a dozen; standard. 2s 6id a dozen; medium, 2s 5Jd a dozen; pullets, 2s 2d a dozen; large duck, 2s B|d a dozen.

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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 6

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VEGETABLES FRUIT, AND MEAT Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 6

VEGETABLES FRUIT, AND MEAT Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 6

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