A GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 189, 12 May 1928, Page 12

A GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFE

< EGGS ARE DOWN 2d. PER DOZEN The following list of cash retail prices gives a fair indication of what is being charged over the counter in the city. Tile quotations 00 not include delivery. Suburban prices are riot quoted:— Groceries.—New laid eggs are 3/6 dbz.; pullets' eggs arp 3/- doz. Good table butter is 1/7 lb., arid pure whey butter 1/5 lb. Cooked ham is 2/2 and 2/6 lb.; prunes are 6d. lb.; mild cheese is lid. and 1/- lb.; 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 arid clover honey sell at lOd. lb.; rice, sago, barley and tapioca are ail 3d. lb. Spanish muscatds are 1/6 per packet, and Californian muscatels are 1/10 per packet. Turkish tigs are I/- lb. New season’s French wjilnuts (shelled) are 2/6 lb. Californian prunes. Sd-46's, are Bd. lb. Fruit.—Hothouse tomatoes are quoted at Bd. lb.; lemons are 2d. and 30. each; oCaiiges art 3/- ariti 4/- dbz., Island oranges 2/- a doz.; pears are 4jj. to Cd. (eating), and 3d. lb., or 51b for 1/- (cooking); quinces are 4d. lb.; tpihatoes are 4d. and fid- lb.; grapes (Sydney) are 1/- to 1/4 (hothouse). 2/6 |b.; Cape gooseberries are Bd. lb. Vegetable);.—French beans are 6d. and Bil. lb.; butter beans are 6d. lb.; edrililiowers range from 6d. to 1/- each; kutiieras are 3d. and 4d. lb.; cabbages are 3d., 40.. and 6d. each; marrows die 3d. to 60. each; carrots and turnips are 2d. bunch: prtrsnips are 3d. bunch; beetroot is 3d. InjndiO; onions are 2d. lb.; pieinejon is sold at 8:b. for 1/-; celery is 3d.. 4d., 6d. and I/- a head; potatoes are Blb. for 1/-; lettuce arp 3d- and 4d. each; pulripkin is 81b. for 1/-; spinach is 3d. a bunch; mushrooms are tod. to 1/6 Hi.: Brussels sprduts are 60. to 1/- lb.; asparagus is 80. to 1/- lb.; cucumbers are 3d. to 4ti. eheb. (hothouse) 60., B<j. and I/- each. Fish.—Oysters arc 1/; doz. (opened), aijtl Bd. doz. (in shell); all rouiiii fish are 4d..; Hat fish is lt)d.; smoked fish lOd. to 1/1 lb.; hapuka 6d. lb. Meat. —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 lOd. lb., anij muttch chops sell at 9d. lb. Tripe, 6d. lb.; mincemeat sd. lb.; beef sausages arc 6d. lb., and pork sausages Bd. and 100. lb.; corned beef is sd. and 70. per lb.