THIS WEEK’S RETAIL PRICES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 299, 18 September 1928, Page 5

THIS WEEK’S 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. Best eggs, 1/7 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.; N.Z. 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, 1/6 packet; Californian muscatels, 1 Od. packet; Turkish figs, I/- lb.; new season’s French walnuts- (shelled), 2/6 lb.: Californian prunes, 30-40's. Bd. lb.-, mild Cheddar cheese. 1/- lb.; matured Cheddar cheese, I/4 lb.

Vegetables.—-Cauliflowers range from 6d. to lOd.; kumeraa, 4d. lb.; cabbages, 4d. and lOd.; 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. for I/-; lettuce, 2d. and 3d. each; pumpkin, 81b. for 1/-; spinach, 4d. bunch; Brussels sprouts, 1/-lb.; rhubarb, lOd. bundle, hothouse, 1/6 bundle; leeks, 3d. bundle; sweet turnips. I |d. Ib.; artichokes, 3d. Ib.: cucumbers, 1/4 to 1/6: green peas (hothouse), I/- to 1/4 lb.; new potatoes, 4d. to 6d. Ib.; French beans, 3/6 lb. 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.; whitebait in stock, intermittently 4/- to 5/- lb. Fruit.—Pears, 4d. and 6d. (eating), and 4d. lb. (cooking) ; mandarines, 1/6 doz.; Island tomatoes, 6d. to 1/- lb.; grape fruit, Bd. each; bananas, lid. to 1/6 doz.; passion fruit, 3/- doz.; pineapples. 2/- each; oranges, 1/6 and 2/- doz.; Poorman oranges, 2/6 doz.; Seville oranges, 3/- doz.; tomatoes, I/- lb.; N.Z. lemons. 1/6 doz.; Californian lemons, 2/6 to 3/-; plums, I/- lb.; Californian grapes, 1/- to 1/6 lb. J Meat.—Chops for stewing. 7d. lb.; corned pork, 9d. lb.; gravybeef, ,sd. lb., sirloin of beef, 9d. lb.: ribs of beef, 7d. lb.; legs 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 lOd. Ib.; corned beef, sd. and 7d. lb.; spring lamb, 1/8 lb.