TO-DAY’S RETAIL QUOTATIONS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 301, 20 September 1928, Page 5

TO-DAY’S RETAIL QUOTATIONS

The following list of cash retail prices gives a fair indication of what is being charged over the counter in the city. Ihe quotations do not include delivery. Suburban prices are not quoted: Meat.—Chops for slewing. 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 1 Od. lb.; corned beef, sd. and 7d lb.; spring lamb, 1/8 lb. Groceries.—Best eggs, 1/6 doz i good table butter 1/8 lb.; pure whey butter, 1/6 lb.; cooked ham. ./2 and 2/6 lb., prunes. 4d. lb.; mild cheese, I/- lb.; matured cheese, 1/4 lb.' N.Z. Stilton cheese, ?/• 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, /6 packet; Californian muscatels, lOd. packet; Turkish figs, I/- 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, I/4 lb. oil Vegetables.—Cauliflowers range from 6d. to Bd.; kumeras, 4d. lb.; cabbages. 4d. and 1 Od.; 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 1 /■: lettuce, 2d. and 3d. each; pumpkin, 81b. for 1/-; spinach, 4d. bunch; Brussels sprouts, I/-lb.; rhubarb, I Od. bundle, hothouse, 1/6 bundle; leeks, 3d. bundle: sweet turnips, 1 )d. lb.; artichokes, 3d. lb.: cucumbers, 1/4 to 1/6; green peas (hothouse), 1/6 lb.; new potatoes, 4d. to 6d. lb.; French beans. 3/6 lb. Fish.—Oysters. I/- doz. (opened), and Bd. doz. (in shell); all round fish. 4d. lb.; flat fish, 1 Od.; 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 I/- lb.; grape fruit, 8d each; bananas, 1/6 to 2/- doz.; passion fruit, 4/- 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 Io 3/-1 plums. I/- lb.; Californian grapes, I/- to 1/6 lb,