Page 5 Advertisements Column 2

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 54, 27 November 1928, Page 5

TO-DAY’S RETAIL PRICES The following list of cash retail prices gives a fair indication of what 1. being charged over the counter in the city. The quotations do not include delivery. Suburban prices are not quoted. Fruit, Pears, 6d, (eating), and 4d. lb. (cooking); mandarines, 1/6 doz.; Island tomatoes, 1/8 lb.; bananas, 1/- doz.; pineapples, 2/- each; oranges, 1/6 and 2/- doz.: tomatoes, 2/6 lb.; N.Z. kmom. 1/6 doz.; Californian lemons, 2/6 to 3/-; Californian grapes, 1/6 ,Ib.; Island oranges, 3/- doz.; Sydney oranges, 2/- to 3/- doz.; gooseberries, 4d. and 6d. lb.; cherries, 1/6 to 1/8 lb.; fresh strawberries, 2/- and 2/6 a punnet. Vegetables.—Asparagus. 1/- bundle; cauliflowers from 3d. to Bd.; cabbages, 3d. and 6d.; marrows, 1/4 each; carrots and turnips, 3d. bunch; parsnips, 3d. bunch; beetroot, 3d. bundle; onions, sd. lb.: potatoes, 61b. for I/-; lettuce, 2d. and 3d. each; pumpkin, 3d. lb.; spinach, 6d. bunch; rhubarb, 4d. bundle; leeks, 3d. bundle; sweet turnips, Ijd. lb.; cucumbers, 1/2; new potatoes, 4d. lb.; oW potatoes, 2d. a lb.; broad beans, od. lb.; rhubarb (large bundle), 9d.; French beans, 2/- lb.; green peas, 6d lb Groceries.—Best eggs, 1/4 doz.; good table butter, 1/7 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 lb.; 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, 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, 1/- lb.; matured Cheddar cheese, 1/4 lb. Fiah.•——Round fish, sd. lb.; flat flsh, !/•; smoked fish, 1/2; hapuka, Bd. Meat.—Chops for stewing, Bd. lb.; corned pork, 1 Od. ahd 1 Id. lb.; gravy beef, sd. lb.; sirloin of beef, lOd. lb.; ribs of beef, 7id. lb.; legs of mutton. 10d. and 1 Id. lb.; mutton chops, 1 0d. and lld lb.; tripe, 6d. lb.; mincemeat, sd. lb.; beef sausages, sd. lb.; pork sausages, lOd. lb.; corned beef, sd. and 7d. lb.; spring lamb, l/l 1/3 lb-