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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 58, 2 December 1930, Page 15

RETAIL PRICES IN THE CITY A Guide to the Family Shopper Butter grows cheaper in price, and the best grades are now being retailed at 1/- a pound, with the whey brand at lOd. Strawberries are an unstable commodity, the price varying from day to day between 2/2 and 2/10 a punnet, so that 2/6 might be considered to be the average ruling price. The following quotations are for goods sold over the counter, and do not include booking or delivery charges:—• ‘ Groceries. —Best eggs, 1/7 to 1/9 doz.; first-grade butter, 1/- lb.; best whey butter, lOd. lb.; cooked ham, 2/2 aud 2/6 lb.; prunes, 6d- lb.; mild cheese, 1/- lb.; matured cheese, 1/4 lb.; N.Z. Stilton cheese, 3/Ib.; condensed milk, 6d. and 1/- a tin; loosd prunes, 9d. lb.; dates, 6d. packet and 3d- lb. loose; sugar, 12/- 701 b. bag, or 24d. Ib.; bulk honey, and clover honey, 9d. lb.; rice, sago, barley, tapioca, all 3d. lb.; Californian muscatels, Bd. packet. Vegetables.—Cabbages, 2d. to 6d. each; turnips and parsnips, 3d. to 6d. bunch; new season’s carrots, 4d. and 6d. bunch; beetroot, 3d' to 6d. bunch; loquets, 1/- lb.: potatoes, best grade, 91b. 1/-; lettuces 3d. to 4d. each; w’hite turnips, 3d. bunch; onions, 4d. lb.; marrows, 5d.; pumpkins, 3d. lb.; cauliflowers, 6d. to 1/- each; spring cabbages, 3d. to 6d.; new potatoes, 3d. lb., or 51b. 1/-; leeks, 3d. bunch; kumeras, 4d. lb.; hothouse cucumbers, Bd. to 1/-; green peas, 4d. to 6d. lb. Fruit—Apples, first-grade dessert, 4d. to 6d. lb. ; Canadian apples (Jonathan). Bd. Ib.; cooking a PP les ’0 4 /’2;Colt \ nnnles 1/6 to 2/- each; Australian oranges, 2/-, 2/6, 3/- doz., Cali foimian grapefruit, Bd. each; Californian lemons, 3/- doz.; New Zea£nd » 1/6 to 2/- doz.; Californian grapes, 1/4 lb-; bananas, 1/- to 1/6 doz.; pears, 4d. to 6d. lb.; rhubarb, 4d. to 6d. bunch, Island tomatoes, 1/- to 1/4; hothouse tomatoes, 1/10 lb.; Californian plums, Bd. to lOd. lb.; asparagus, 1/- bunch; Australian cucumbers, 4d. to Bd. each; hothouse cucumbers, Bd. and lOd. each; cherry plums, 6d. lb.; gooseberries, 6d. lb.; strawberries, 2/6 box. r.fonf chons for stewing, Bd. lb.; corned pork, 1/- per lb.; gravy Xin of ' S lOd. lb.; ribs of beef, Bd. lb-; legs of mutton lOd’and lid lb.; mutton chops, lOd. and lid. lb.; dripping, Si lb : nork chops, V- and 1/2 lb.; stewing steak, Bd. lb.; rump tri?e, 6d. lb.; mincemeat, 6d. lb ; beef sausages, 6d. lb.; pork sausages, lOd. lb.; corned beef, id. and 9d. W. Fish Smoked cod, 1/2 lb.; smoked ling, 1/-, terakihi, 1/~, nake, lOd.; cod (fresh), 10d.; schnapper, Gd.; fillet, 9d.; butterfish, 10d.; hapuka, 9d.; garfish, 1/- and 1/6 dozen.

Genuine "VAREX” Heals Legs Without Besting. Be sure you get the original and genuine “Varex.” Inexpensive, safe, . simple, permanent results. Get free booklet from Varex, Ltd. G.P.O. Box 1558 A, Wellington. Local represeu- ' tative, NURSE SPENCE, 15 Courtenay Place, second floor, above Martin’s Boot Shop, Wellington. Phone 22 —430.

i .■ ' . Ji find what is J STEELTEX ? Ask your ig a rustproo f network of fabricated t steel to which is locked a damp-proof backing. I Steeltex is fixed to the wooden studs by means of a special device and makes a perfect scientific base for plaster. Steeltex builds steel into your walls Architect and tight seals every room against Heat. Cold, Dampness and Noise. tit wraps a network of cold drawn steel around the house, strengthening the "whole building. Steeltex gives the safety of wood and the life of brick. i. C. & A. Odlin Timber & Hardware Co., Ltd. He knows WELLINGTON

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