EGG PRICES DOWN AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 246, 18 July 1928, Page 5

EGG PRICES DOWN AGAIN

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:— Vegetables. —• Cauliflowers range from bd. to 1 Od.; kumeras 3d. lb.; .cabbages 4d. and 1 Od.; marrows, Bd. each; carrots and turnips 2d. bunch: parsnips 3d. bunch J beetroot 3d. bundle; onions 2d. lb:; celery 4d.« 6d. and 1/- head; potatoes 81b. for 1/-; lettuce 2d. and 3d. each; pumpkin 81b. for I/-; spinach 3d. bunch; Brussels sprouts, I/- lb.; rhubarb 4d. bundle; leeks 3d. bundle; sweet turnips I|d. Ib.; artichokes 4d. lb.; pickling onions 6d. lb.; cucumbers I/- to 1/4. Groceries.—Good tabic butter. 1/8 lb.; pure whey butter, 1/6 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 1 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, 2/4 dor.: medium eggs. 2/2 doz. Fruit.—Feats 4d. and 6d. (eating), and 3d. lb., or 51b. for 1/(cooking); grapes (Sydney) 1/- to 1/6; mandatines 1/6 doz.; fig" 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 1/- to 1/6 each; oranges 1/-, 1/6 and 2/- doz.; Poorman oranges 2/6 doz.; Seville oranges 3/- doz.; tomatoes 1/- lb.; Island oranges lOd. lb.; N.Z. lemons 2/- doz.; Californian, lemons 2/6 to •V- • Fish.—Oysters, 1/- doz. (opened), and Bd. doz. (in shell); all round fish, 4d. lb.; flat fish, 10d.: smoked fish, lOd. to 1/1; hapuka, 6d. Meat.-—Chops for stewing, 7d. lb.; corned pork, 9d. lb.; gravy beef, sd. lb.; sirloin of beef 9d. lb. I ribs of beef, 7d. lb.; legs of mutton, 9d. and 10d. lb., and mutton chops 9d. lb. 1 ripe 6d. Zb.; mincemeat sd. lb.; beef sausages, 6d. ib.; pork sausages Bd. and lOd. lb.; corned beef sd, and 7d, lb.