RETAIL PRICES IN THE CITY 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. Fruit. —Pears. 4d. (eating), and 4d. (cooking); tomatoes, 4d. to 6d. lb.; bananas, 1/- to 1/6 doz.; N.Z, lemons, 2/- doz.; Californian lemons. 2/6 to 3/-; Sydney oranges, 2A to 3/- doz.; apricots, Bd. to lOd. lb-5 cocoanuts, 4d. and od.; raspberries, 1/6; peaches. 6d. to lOd. lb.; Ja. to Bd, lb.; grapefruit, 6/- doz.: hothouse grapes, 1/8 to |/|0 lb.; Californian oranges, 2/- to 3/6 doz.; nectarines, 6d. to 1 0d. lb,; new seasons apples (cooking). 51b. 1/-; (dessert). 4d. to 6d. lb.; greengages, 6d. to Bd. lb.; William pears. 4d. lb.; cape gooseberries, lOd. lb. Vegetables.—Cabbages, 4d. and Bd.; marrows, 4d. and I/each; carrots and turnips, 3d. bunch; parsnips, 3d, bunch: beetroot, 3d. bundle; onions, 3d. lb.; potatoes, std 8)b. for I/'• lettuce. 3d. to 4d. each; rhubarb, 4d. bundle; sweet turnips, 3d. to 6d. lb.; cucumbers. Id. to 4d.; rhubarb, large bundle, 6d. to )/-; French beans, 4d. lb.; green peas, 4d. lb,; butter beans, 6d. lb.; pumpkins, 2d lb Groceries. —Best eggs, 2/8 doz.; good table butter, 1/8 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 701b.’’bag; bulk honey and clover hpney. 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. Fish.—Round fish, sdi lb.; flat fish, I/-; smoked fish, 1/2; hapuka, 6d. Meat.—Chops for stewing. Bd. lb.; corned pork, lOd. and 1 Id. lb.; gravy beef, sd. Ib.: sirloin of beef, 10d. lb.; ribs of beef, 7Vd. lb.; legs of mutton. |o<l, and lid. lb.; mutton chops, lOd. and lid. lb.; tripe, 6d. lb.; mincemeat, sd. lb.; beef sausages, sd. lb.; pork sausages, 10d. lb.; corned beef, 5Jd. and 7|d. lb.; spring lamb, 1/1 to 1/2 lb.
Bargaim in Brows®!© CAMERAS AT THE KODAK gglllllli FIRE SALE, LAMBTON I ISir q uay - ■r® s WownSes Usually ag/- - - r kow Srom N© Uswany a®/- - - now firoen Dozens of other cameras all at Fire sale Prices. Big reductions in photographic sundries. See bargains ip windows. Kodafe Shop LAMBTON QUAY —Near Kelburn Tram-
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 5
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