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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 287, 4 September 1928, Page 5

CITY RETAIL 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. —Eggs were sold yesterday at 1/8 doz. Good table butter, 1/8 lb.; pure whey butter. 1/6 lb.; cooked ham, 2/2 and 2/6 lb.; prunes, 4d. lb.; mild cheese, 1/- lb.; matured cheese, 1/4 lb ■ NZ. Stilton cheese, 3/- lb.; condensed milk, 6d. and I/- per tin’; dates, 6d. packet, and 4d. lb. loose; sugar, 14/9 (delivered) for 701 b. bag; bulk honey and clover honey, 9d. lb.; rice, sago, barley and tapioca, all 3d. lb.; Spanish muscatels, /6 packet; Californian muscatels. lOd. packet; Turkish figs, I/- lb.; new season's French walnuts (shelled), 2/6 lb ; Califorman prunes. 30-40's. Bd. lb.; mild Cheddar cheese. 1/- lb.: matured Cheddar cheese, 1/4 lb. , nj . Vegetables.—Cauliflowers range from 6d. to lOd.; kumcras, 4d. lb. ;'cabbages, 4d. and 10d.; marrows, Id. lb.; carrots and turnips, 3d. bunch; parsnips, 3d. bunch; beetroot, 3d. bundle; onions. 3d lb.; celery, 4d„ 6d.. and I/- head; potatoes, 81b. lor I/-;' lettuce, 2d. and 3d. each; pumpkin, 81b. for I/-; spinach. 4d. bunch; Brussels sprouts, 1/- lb.; rhubarb. I/- bund e, hothouse, 1/6 bund e, leeks, 3d. bundle: sweet turnips, Rd. lb.; artichokes. 3d. lb.: cucumbers. 1/4 to 1/6; green peas (hothouse), 1/- to 1/4 lb.; new potatoes, 4d. to 6d. lb. , ... Fish. Oysters, I/- doz. (opened), and Bd. doz. (in sh =‘V' all round fish, 4d. lb.; flat fish. 10d.; smoked fish, lOd. to 1/1: hpll Fruit.—Pears, 4d. and 6d. (eating), • and 4d. lb. (cooking)’, mandarines, 1/6 doz.; Island tomatoes, 6d. to I/- lb.; grape fruit. Pd e-'ch- bananas, lid. to 1/6 doz.; passion fruit, 3/- doz.; pineLplcs, ’/-'each: oranges. 1/6 and 2/- doz.; Poorman orange 2/6 doz.; Seville oranges, 3/- doz.; tomatoes, I/- lb.; N.Z. lemon*. 2/- doz.: Californian lemons. 2/6 to 3/-; plums. I/- lb.; Canfornian grapes, I/- to 1/6 lb, » « i n Meat.—Chops for stewing, 7d. lb.; cornea pork, 9d. lb.; gravy beef, sd. lb.; sirloin of beef, 9d. lb.; ribs of beef, /d. lb.; * e 8 s of mutton. 9d. and lOd. lb., and mutton chops. 9d. lb. Tripe, 6d. lb., mincemeat. sd. lb.; beef sausages. 6d. lb.; pork sausages, Bd. and I Od. lb.: corned beef. sd. and 7d. lb.