GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFE

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 80, 29 December 1931, Page 2

GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFE

Eggs Falling in Price; Stone Fruits Plentiful

M ‘, th Christmas over, the price of eggs is sagging. It has dropped 2d. to 1/7 a dozen, and is likely to fall fjirther, the-market being very weak. Otherwise there is little movement in city shops, as holiday conditions have hampered business activities. ' Stone fruits are coming to the market in greater quantities, but there is no appreciable change in prices. The following list of quotations, which takep no account of booking or deliver} charges, will be found to be a fairly accurate guide to current market prices • Groceries.—Best eggs, 1/7 a dozen; first-grade butter, 1/1 lb.: whev butter, 1/l b /„ : m°? ked ? am ’ : ,. p , rune ?’ % Wd- lb.; mild cheese Sd. lb.; matured cheese, 1/2 lb., condensed milk, 6d. and lOd. tin; loose apricots, 9d. lb.: figs lOd.’ lb.; dates, 6d. packet and 3d. lb. loose; sugar, 14/- a 701 b. bag, or 2Jd. lb.’: bulk honey and elover honey, Bd. lb.; rice, sago, barley and tapioca, all 3d. lb.; California muscatels, 1/- packet. Vegetables.—Cabbages, 3d. to 6d. each; turnips, parsnips and carrots 3d. bunch; potatoes, best grade, 121 b. to pilb, 1/-; new potatoes, 2d. and 3d lb • lettuces, 3d. each; white turnips, 3d. bunch; onions, 3d. lb.; pumpkins,’ 2d. lb.; cauliflowers, 4d. to 1/- each; beetroot, 3d. to Cd. bunch; leeks, 3d. bunch; celery, Gd. to 1/- head: kunierns. 4d lb.; marrow, 2d. lb.; spinach, 3d. bunch; sliver beet. 4<l. to Bd. bunch: rhubarb. 4d. to Cd. and 1/- bunch: table celerr, lOd. to 1/4 stick; garlic. 1/6 lb.; hot-bouse cucumbers. Bd. and 10d.; outdoorgrown cucumbers, 6d.; asparagus, 4d. to lOd. bunch: peas, 3d. and 4d. lb.. 5 and bib. 1/-; French beans, Cd. to Bd. lb.; broad beans, 3d. lb. Fruit.—Apples, first-grade dessert, 4d. to Cd. lb ; cooking apples. 3d and 4d. *J’', : ,,P in ® a PP} es ’' V- to 1/8 each; Californian grapefruit, Gd. and Bd. each; Californian lemons and oranges. 2/- and 3/- dozen; Island oranges, 1/6 to 3Zd?ze“' Zeali,nil lemons, 1/6 to 2/- dozen; bananas, 1/- to 1/6 dozen; pears, 4d. to 6d. lb.; tomatoes, Bd. to lOd. lb.; hothouse tomatoes. 1/4 to 1/8 lib.; manihrlns 1/- to 1/6 dozen; cooking pears, 4d. lb.; passionfruit. 2/- to 3/- dozen; 6 ra P es ’ V 4 lh- < loquats, lOd. lb.; American grapes, 1/4 lb.; cherries, lOd. to 1/8 lb.; gooseberries, 4d. lb.; strawberries, 1/3 to 1/10 punnet: cookintr plums, 4d. to Gd. lb.; dessert peaches, 1/- to 1/6 lb.; cooking peaches Gd lb ; Canadian apricots. lOd. lb.; cookihg apricots, 6d. lb. Meat.—Slutton legs. Cd. and 7d lb.; chops, Cd. to Bd. lb.: shoulders, 4}d. lb.: dripping, sd. lb.; beef: sirloin. Sd. lb.: ribs. sd. lb.; rump steak, lid lb • stewing steak, od. lb.; beef steak. 6d. lib.; tripe, sd. lb.; mince, 4d. lb.; sausages 4d. lb , pork sausages. Bd. lb.; corned beef. sd. and 7d. lb.; stewing chops, 6d. Mm pickled pork, Sd. to lOd. lb.; pork chops, 10d. lb.; gravy beef M lb ‘ I/O in’’.~sJ? o Mn. cod ' B T„°, kcd l' n S-V-: smoked roefish. 1/-; terakiM. ’ 10d ’i (fresh), JOd.; schnapper, Cd.; fillet, 9d.; butterfish, ICd.; hapuka, 9d.; warehou, 6d.; flounders and soles, 1/-; rabbits, 1/-1 kippers Vpalr; crayfish, Cd.; prawns, 2/- lb. ‘