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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 85, 9 January 1928, Page 5

A GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFE LIST OF CITY PRICES The following list of cash retail prices gives a fair indication of what is being charged over the counter in the city. The quotations do not include delivery. Suburban prices are not quoted:— Groceries. —New laid eggs are 1/10 per doz.; good table butter is still 1/0 lb., and pure whey butter 1/4 lb.; cooked ham is 2/2 and 2/6 lb-s prunes are fid. lb.; salmon is fid. to 1/8 tin; mild cheese is lid. and 1/Ib.; matured cheese is 1/- and 1/4 lb.; N.Z. Stilton cheese is 3/- lb.; condensed milk is Cd. and 1/- per tin; dates are Bd. packet, and 4d. lb. loose. Sugar is 16/6 for a 701 b. bag; bulk honey and clover honey sell at lOd. lb.; rice, sago, barley and tapioca are all 3d. lb. Spanish muscatels are 1/fl per packet, and Californian muscatels 1/10 per packet; Turkish figs are 1/- lb. Fish. —Round fish is Bd. and 9d. lb.; flat fish is 1/- lb.; smoked fish is 1/3 lb. Meat.—Spring lamb is cheaper, forequarters being (Id. lb.; chops for stewing are 7d. lb.; corned pork is 9d. lb.; gravy beef is sd. lb.; sirloin of beef is 9d- lb., and ribs of beef are 7d. lb.; legs of mutton are 9d. and 10dlb., and mutton chops sell at 9d. Ib. Tripe, fid. lb.: mincemeat fid. lb.; corned beef 7d. and Bd. per lb.; beef sausages arc fid. lb., and pork sausages Bd. and lOd. lb. Vegetables.—Marrows are Bd. and lOd. each; peas are 3d. lb-, and Clb. for 1/-; French beans are Bd. lb.; broad beans are 3d. lb.: butter beans are 1/- lb-: cucumbers are 3d. and 4d. each; cabbages are 3d. to fid. each, and cauliflowers Bd. to lOd. each; beetroot is 3d. per bundle; lettuce are Id. to 3d. each; Taro potatoes are 4d. lb.; carrots, parsnips and turnips are 3d. per bunch: spring onions are 2d. per bunch; onions are 3d. per lb.; leeks are 3d. per bundle; swedes are 2d. per lb. Fruit.—Cherries are 2/4 and 2/6 lb.; tomatoes are fid. to 1/- lb-; hothouse tomatoes are I/O lb.; plums are fid. to lod. (eating), and 3d. Ib. (cooking): peaches are Bd. to 1/- Ib (eating), and (id. lb. (cooking); apricots are 1/- lb.; American grapes are 1/4 lb., and locally-grown grapes 3/- lb.; Sydney passion fruit are 4/- doz-; grape fruit arc fid. and Bd. each: gooseberries arc 4d. and fid. Ib.; eating apples are fid. and Bd. lb.; dessert pears are 4d., fid., an Bd. Ib.; lemons are 1/6 to 3/. doz.; orange# are 3/4 and 4/- doz.; pineapples are 9/. each.