RETAIL PRICES REMAIN UNCHANGED 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, 1/5 doz.; good table butter, 1// lb.; pure whey butter. 1/5 lb.; cooked ham 2/2 and 2/6 lb.; prunes, 4d lb.; mild cheese, 1/- lb.; matured cheese, 1/4 Ib.;,N.Z. Stilton cheese, 3/- lb.; condensed milk. 6d. and 1/- 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, 10d. 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. M ea t.—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 1 Od., 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. Vegetables. Asparagus, I Od. bundle; cauliflowers from 3d. 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, 6d. lb.; celery, 4d„ 6d., and 1/- head; potatoes, 61b. for 1/-; lettuce, 2d. and 3d. each; pumpkin, 81b. for I/-; spinach, 4d. bunch; Brussels sprouts, 1/- lb.; rhubarb, 4d. to 6d. bundle, hothouse, I/- bundle; leeks, 3d. bundle; sweet turnips, 1 Jd. lb.; artichokes, 3d. lb.; cucumbers, 1/2 to 1/4; green peas (hothouse), 6d. to 1/- lb.; new potatoes, 4d. lb.; old potatoes, 2d. a lb. Fruit.—Pears, 4d. and 6d. (eating), and 4d. lb. (cooking); mandarines, 1/6 doz.; Island tomatoes, 1/- to 1/4 lb.; grape fruit, Bd. each; bananas, 1/6 to 2/- doz.; passion fruit, 2/6 to 3/- doz.; pineapples, 2/- each; oranges, 1/6 and 2/- doz.; Poorman oranges, 2/6 doz.; Seville oranges,- 3/- doz.; tomatoes, 2/- lb.; N.Z. lemons, 1/6 doz.: Californian lemons, 2/6 to 3/-; plums, 1/4 lb.; Californian grapes, lOd. to I/- lb.; tree tomatoes, 'l/2 lb.; Island oranges, 2/6 to 4/- doz,
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 33, 2 November 1928, Page 5
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