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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 296, 13 September 1927, Page 5

A GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFE $ PREVAILING PRICES IN THE CITY Xew laid eggs arc 1/9 per doz. Good table butter is 1/7 per lb., and pure wbey butter 1/5 lb. Mild cheese is lid. and 1/- lb.; matured cheese is !/• and' 1/4 lb. N.Z. Stilton cheese is 3/- lb. Condensed milk is fid. and 1/- per tin; dates are Bd. per packet, and 4d. lb. (loose). Sugar is 16/6 for a 701 b. bag, or 3d. lb. Bulk honey and elover honey sell at lOd. lb.; rice, sago, barley and tapioca are all 3d. Ib. Cooked ham is 2/6 lb. Prunes are 6d. lb.; salmon is 6d. to 1/8 per tin. Whitebait is still 3/- per half pint. Smoked fish is 1/3 lb.;; round fish is Bd. and 9d. Ib., and flat fish 1/- lb.; crayfish are to be bought at from 6d. each upwards; oysters are Bd. doz. (in shell), and 1/- doz. (opened). Cauliflowers are now 2d. to 1/- each. Spinach is 4d. bundle. Celery is 4d. to 1/- per stick. Leeks are 3d. bundle. Lettuce are 2d. to 4d. each. Brussels’ sprouts are lOd. and 1/- Ib.; onions are 2d. and 3d. Ib. Swedes, pumpkins and marrow are IJd. lb. New potatoes are 4d. and 6d. per lb.; cabbages are 2d. to Bd. each; carrots, turnips and parsnips are 3d. per bundle; kumeras are 3d. per lb., or 51b. for 1/-; rhubarb is Bd. bundle. Gravy beef is 5d per lb.; sirloin of beef is 9d, Ib., and ribs of beef are 7d. lb.; legs of mutton are 9d. and lOd. lb., and mutton chops sell at 9d. lb. Tripe, fid per Ib.; mincemeat sd. lb.; corned beef 7d. and Bd. per Ib.; beef sausages are fid. ib., and pork sausages Bd. and lOd. Ib. Mandarines are Bd. to 1/6 doz.: oranges 2/- to 4/- doz. Sydney grapes are 1/8 lb.; dessert pears are 4d. and fid. lb., and cooking pears Id. lb.; eating apples are 4d. and fid. lb., and cooking apples 4d. lb.; lemons arc 2/- and 3/- doz. Pineapples may be bought from 1/4 to 2/6 each. Passion fruit are 2/- and 2/6 doz. Tomatoes arc 6d. to 1/6 lb.; tree tomatoes are 6d. Ib. These quotations apply to cash prices over the counter in the city, and, in most cases, do not include delivery.