A GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFE
PREVAILING PRICES IN THE CITY Californian grapes are 1/2 and 1/6 per lb.; tomatoes are now Sd. tp 1 /10 lb. American grape fruit are Bd. and lOd. each; pineapples are 1/6 to 2/3 each; rhubarb is 4d. and fid. bundle. Passion fruit arc 2/6 doz., eating apples arc 4d. and fid. lb., and cooking apples sd. lb.; dessert pears are fid. and Sd. lb., and cooking pears Id. lb.; mandarines are 1/6 to 3/- doz., tree tomatoes arc Bd. lb.; lemons are 2/- to 3/- doz., and oranges arc -/- 10 4 New taid eggs are still selling at 1/9 doz. Sugar is 16/6 for a 701 b. bar or 3d. lb. Bulk honey or clover honey sell at lOd. lb.; rice, sago, barley and tapioca are all 3d. lb. Cooked ham is 2/6 lb. Prunes are 6d lb.; salmon is 6d. to 1/8 per tin. Mild cheese is lid. and 1/-lb.; matured cheese is 1/- and 1/4 lb. N.Z. Stilton cheese is 3/- lb. Good table butter is 1/8 lb., and pure whey butter 1/0 lb. Condensed milk is 6d. and 1/per tin; dates are Bd. per packet, and 4d. lb. (loose). Oysters are still Bd. doz. (in shell), and 1/- doz. (opened . F is 1/- per lb., and round fish Bd. and fid. per lb. Smoked fish is 1/3 lb. Crayfish are from 6d. upwards (according to size). Whitebait is 5/- per P ’ n Grary beef is 5d per lb.; sirloin ot beef is 9d. lb., and ribs ot beef arc 7d. lb.; legs ot mutton are fid. and tod. lb., and mutton chops sell at fid. lb. Tripe, fid per lb.; mincemeat sd. lb.; corned beef "d. and Bd. per lb.; beef sausages are fid lb., and pork sausages 8d and tod lb. Green peas are 10(1. to 1/6 lb. Asparagus is Bd., 10d„ and 1/- bundle. Cauliflowers are 3d. to 9d. each, and cabbages 2d. to Cd. each; new potatoes are 4d. and Od. lb.; onions are 3d. lb., or 51b. for 1/-.; cucumbers are lOd. to 1/3 each; lettuce are 2d. to 6d. each, and celery 4d. to 1/- per stick; leeks are 3d. per bundle; carrots, parsnips and turnips are 3d. per bundle? Spinach is d. per bundle, and swedes 3d. lb. , These quotations apply to cash prices over the counter in the city, and, in most cases, do not include delivery. Suburban prices are not quoted.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 16, 13 October 1927, Page 14
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