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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 241, 12 July 1928, Page 5

RETAIL PRICES UNCHANGED 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:-— «» Meat—Chops for stewing, 7d. lb.; corned pork, 9d. lb.; gravy beef, sd. lb.: sirloin of beef 9d. lb.: ribs of beef, 7d. lb.; legs of mutton, 9d. and 10d. lb., and mutton chops 9d. lb. Tripe 6d. lb.; mincemeat sd. lb.; beef sausages. 6d. lb.; pork sausages Bd. and lOd. lb.: corned beef sd. and 7d. Ib. Vegetables. — Cauliflowers range from 6d. to 1 Od.; kumeras 3d. lb.; cabbages 4d. and I0d.; marrows. Bd. each; carrots and turnips 2d. bunch: parsnips 3d. bunch: beetroot 3d. bundle; onions 2d. lb.; helery 4d., 6d. and 1/- head; potatoes 81b. for 1/-; lettuce ?d. and 3d. each: pumpkin 81b. for I/-; spinach 3d. bunch; Brussels sprouts, 1/- lb.: rhubarb 4d. bundle; leeks 3d. bundle; sweet turnips 1-JcL lb.; artichokes 4d. ib.; pickling onions 6d. lb.; cucumbers .1/- to 1/4. Groceries.—Good table butter, 1/7 lb.; pure whey butter, 1/5 lb.: cooked ham, 2/2 and 2/6 lb.; prunes, 6d. lb.; mild cheese. 1/lb.; matured cheese. 1/4 lb.; N.Z. Stilton cheese. 3/- lb.; condensed milk, 6d. and 1/- per tin; dates. Bd. packet, and 4d. lb. loose; sugar, 15/9 (delivered) for 701 b. bag; bulk honey and clover honey, 9d. lb.; rice, sago, barley and tapioca, all 3d. lb.; Spanish muscatels. 1/6 packet; Californian muscatels, lOd. packet: Turkish figs, 1/- lb.; new season*s French walnuts (shelled), 2/6 lb.: Californian prunes 30-40’s, Bd. lb.; best eggs. 2/8 doz.; medium eggs, 2/4 doz.; medium-sized eggs are reported to be getting scarcer. Fruit.—Pears 4d. and 6d. (eating), and 3d. lb., or 51b. for 1/(cooking); grapes (Sydney) 1/- to 1/6; mandarines 1/6 doz.; figs 6d. lb.; Island tomatoes Bd. lb.; quinces 6d. lb.; persimmons 6d. lb.; grape fruit 6d. each; bananas Bd. to 1/6 doz.; passion fruit 3/- doz.; pineapples I/- to 1/6 each I oranges 1/-, 1/6 and 2/- doz.; Poorman oranges 2/6 doz.; Seville oranges 3/- doz.; tomatoes 1/- lb.; Island oranges 1/6 to 2/-; N.Z. lemons 2/- doz.; Californian lemons 2/6 to Fish.—Oysters. 1/- doz. (opened), and Bd. doz. (in shell); all round fish, 4d. lb.; flat fish, JOd.; smoked fish, 1 Od. to l/l; hapuka, 6d,