RETAIL PRICES IN CITY SHOPS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 2

RETAIL PRICES IN CITY SHOPS

What to Pay for Foodstuffs Changes in prices of foodstuffs in the city since Tuesday have been confined almost entirely to fruit and vegetables. French beans, grapes, pineapples, black currants and tomatoes are cheaper, but Calitornmn oranges aie dCII TIie following list may prove of assistance to Ibe housewife:— Groceries— Eggs. 1/2 and 1/3 <Joz; butter, first-grade, 9id lb; whey butter 7)d lb; cooked ham. 1/10 lb; bacon, prime cuts, 7d lb; bacon rashers, 8d to 171 lb; prunes, 4Ad to 7d lb; cheese, mild, 6Jd lb, cheese matured, I/- b, milk 7id, Sid, 9£d 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; lionev, clover. Oil lb; race, sago, barley and tapioca, 3d lb; jams, tinned, lb °lb 1/-! tinned apricots and peaches, lid; tinned tongues, 9id ; tinned salmon. 7:\d 9d and 1/-; tinned beans, 4£d, 6id and 9jd; tinned tomato soup, Gid and Old; spaghetti, 41d. G.’d and 9Jd; sultanas, 41fl lb; currants, bid lb; oatmeal, 2d lb; rolled oats. 3d lb; tea. 2/-. 2/6 lb; China tea, 3/-; coffee. 2/6; loose cocoa, 1/ ' 'vegetables.— .Spring cabbage, 2d to 4d ; parsnips. 3(1 and 4d bunch; carrots. ::.l buneh : turnins, 2d and 3d bunch; new potatoes. 101 b to 121 b 1./-: let uces. 2d to 4d each; onions, 2d and 3d lb; cauliflowers, -Id to 10d ; beetroot. 3d bunch, spinach 2d and 3d bunch; spring rhubarb, 3d to 6(1 bunch ;• marrows, Id to B<l ouch; pumpkins, lid lb; swede turnips, 3d bunch: garlic, 6d lb; green.peas, <> to Sib !/-• kunieras. 3d to 4d lb; asparagus, 4d to bd a bunch: hothouse cucumbers, 6cl to lOd each ; French beans, 4d to (id lb; broad beans, 2d to 3d lb. jj' ru it —Apples, eating, 3d to Gd lb : apples, cooking. 4d to bd lb; pears, eating,. 6d lb: Californian grapefruit, Gd to Sd each: Californian oranges. 4 to 6 a 1/-; South Australian oranges, 4 to 8 for 1/-; New Zealand lemons. 8 to 16 1/-, bananas.- 6 Io 12 1/-: passionfruit. 2/(! to 3/- a dozen ; pineapples, 8(1 to 1/6 each ; Californian grapes. lOd to 1/- lb; hothouse grapes, 2/3 to 2/6 lb; Island coconuts, 4(1 and Gd each; gooseberries, 3d to 4d lb; strawberries, 1/- to 2/- a punnet; hothouse tomatoes, 6d to 1/- lb: Island tomatoes, 3d to 4d lb; cherry p uins, 2d to ~<1 lb; eating plums, 6d lb; mangoes. 6d to 8d each; cherries, Sd to 1./6 lb; peaches, -Id •’ to’Sd lb; red currants, 6d to Sd lb; black cur rants, 6(1 to Sd lb. Meat Mutton legs, Gd. 7d lb; mutton, chops, (id. 8d lb; mutton, shoulders, s<l 5?.d lb; dripping, 4d lb; lamb, 6d to lOd lb;.spring lamb, from BAd lb; beef, sirloin, 7d lb; beef, ribs, 5d lb; rump steak. lOd lb; mince, 4d lb; sausages, 4d Hi; sausages, pork. Gd lb; corned beef. 4d Gd lb;' stewing steak, 5d lb; beef steak. Gd lb; tripe, 5d lb; stewing chops, 4d; pickled pork, 61d to Sd lb; pork chops, 8d to 10:1 lb; gravy beef. 4d lb. ’ ... , . I,’isli —Smoked cod, Sd lb: smoked fillet, 6d lb; smoked ling, 6(1 lb; ferakihi, fresh, 4d lb; cod, Gd lb; fillet, 1/- lb: butterfish, 6d lb; hapuka, 5d lb; flounders and soles. Sd lb; kippers, !/■ pair. ■