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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 16, 13 October 1933, Page 2

RETAIL PRICES IN THE CITY What to Pay for Foodstuffs Retail prices in the city during the past few days have been practically without change. Eggs have fallen from Monday’s prices of lljd. to 1/2 doz. and now fetch IOJd. to 1/-. A decrease has also occurred in flour, which is selling at 3/6 a 251 b. bag, while green peas yesterday were priced at Bd. a lb., the previous prices being from Sd. to 1/- a lb. In the following list, which shows the present prices of the various commodities in city shops, no charges for'delivery or booking are taken into account:— Groceries. —Eggs, IOJd to 1/- doz; butter, first-grade, 1/li lb; whey butter, 1/- lb; cooked ham, 1/10 lb; bacon, prime cuts, 7d lb; bacon rashers,' Sd to 1/1 lb; prunes, 41d to 7<l lb; cheese, mild, 8d lb; cheese, matured, 1/2 lb; condensed milk, 7Jd. BJd, fljd tin; apricots, loose, 9d lb; dates, loose, 3d lb; dates, 4Jd to 9d packet; flour. 3/6 251 b bag; sugar. 16/9 701 b bag; sugar, 3d lb; honey, clover, (Id lb; rice, sago, barley, and tapioca, 3d lb; jams, tinned, 61:1 lb, 21b 1/-; tinned apricots and poaches, lid; tinned tongues, 9Jd; tinned salmon, 7|d, 9d, and 1/-; tinned beans, 4}d, 6Jd, nnd 94d; tinned tomato soup, 6Jd and 9jd; spaghetti, did, Gid, and 9id; sultanas, 4jd lb; currants, Gid lb: oatmeal, 2d lb; rolled oats, 3d lb; tea, 2/-. 2/6 lb: China tea, 3/-; coffee, 2/6; loose cocoa, 1/- lb. Vegetables.—Spring cabbage, 2d to 4d; parsnips, 3d and 4d bunch; carrots, 2d nnd 3d bunch; turnips, 2d and 3d bunch; new potatoes, 3d • lb: 51b 1/-; potatoes. 1/- 101 b; lettuces, 2d to 4d each; onions, 2d lb; onions, pickling, ]/- 81b lo 101 b; cauliflowers, 4d to lOd; beetroot, 2d and 3d bunch; spinach, 3d bunch; spring rhubarb. 3d to 6d bunch; forced rhubarb. 8d to 1/4 bunch; marrows. Id to Sd each: pumpkins, Id lb; swede turnips, Id lb; garlic, 6d lb: locks. 3d bunch; artichokes, 3d lb; kumeras. 3d lb; green pens, Sd lb; celery, 2d to Sd a bunch; asparagus, 6d to lOd a bunch; hothouse cucumbers, B<l to 1/- each. Fruit.—Apples, eating, 4d to 6d lb; apples, cooking, 3d and 4d lb: pears, eating, 4d and 6d lb; pears, cooking, 3d lb: Californian grapefruit, -Id and 6d eneb ; N.Z. grapefruit, 6 amj .12 for 1/-; Californian oranges, 1/G to 2/- a dozen; Island oranges, 5 and 6 1/-; Sydney oranges, 4 to 8 for 1/-; Island mandarins, .1/- to 1/6 a dozen ; Sydney mandarins, 8 to 12 for .1/-; tangerine, 6 for 1/-: New Zealand lemons, 8 to 16 1/-; Island lemons. 1/6 to 2/- a dozen: bananas. 12 to S 1/-; passionfruit, 2/6 to 3/- a dozen; plums, 1/- lb; pineapples, 1/3 to 2/- each; Californian grapes. 1/- to 1/G lb; Californian coconuts, 4d and Gd each; Californian tomatoes, lOd to 1/2 lb. Meat. —Mutton, legs, Gd, 7d lb; mutton, chops, 6d, 8d lb: mutton, shoulders, sd, 5Jd lb; dripping, 4d lb; lamb, Gd to lOd lb; spring lamb. 1/2 to 1/6 lb; beef, sirloin, 7<l lb; beef, ribs. 5d lb; rump steak, lOd lb; mince, 4d lb: sausages, 4d lb; sausages, pork, Gd lb; corned beef, 4(1, Gd lb; stewing steak, 5d lb; beef steak, Gd lb; tripe, 5d lb; stewing chops, 4d; pickled pork, 6}d to 8d lb; pork chops, Sd to lOd 1b: gravy beef, 4d lb. Fish. —Smoked cod, 8d lb; smoked fillet, (Id lb: smoked ling, Gd lb; (crakihi, fresh, 4d lb; cod, Gd lb; fillet, 1/- lb; butterfish, 6d lb; hapuka, 5d lb: flounders and soles, 8d lb; kippers, 1/- pair; oysters, in shell, 6d doz; off shell, Sd.