MID-WEEK RETAIL PRICES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 300, 19 September 1928, Page 5

MID-WEEK 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:— Fish.—Oysters, I/- doz. (opened), and Bd. doz. (in shell); all round fish. 4d. lb.; flat fish, IOd.; 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, 1 Id. 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/-I plums, I/- lb.; Californian grapes, I/- to 1/6 lb. 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 lOd. 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. lb.; spring lamb, 1/8 lb. Groceries.—Best eggs, 1/6 doz.; good table butter, 1/8 lb.; pure whey butter, 1/6 lb.; cooked ham, "Zlt and 2/6 lb.; prunes, 4d. lb.; mild cheese, I/- 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, 14/3 (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.; mild Cheddar cheese. I/- lb.: matured Cheddar cheese, 1/4 lb. Vegetables.—Cauliflowers range from 6d. to IOd.; kumeras. 4d. lb.: cabbages, 4d. and IOd.; 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 I/-; spinach, 4d. bunch; Brussels sprouts, I/-lb.; rhubarb, lOd. bundle, hothouse, 1/6 bundle; leeks. 3d. bundle; sweet turnips. IJd. lb.; artichokes. 3d. lb : cucumbers, I '4 to 1/6; green peas (hothouse), I/- to 1/4 lb.; nt* potatoes, 4d. to 6d. lb.; French beans, 3/6 lb.