CITY RETAIL PRICES

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 121, 15 February 1935, Page 2

CITY RETAIL PRICES

What to Pay for Foodstuffs Potatoes are in short supply in Wellington at the present time, and are selling at from 6 to 8 lbs. for 1/- instead of 8 to 12 lbs. as was recently the case. Grocery prices remain unchanged. Present prices are as follow: — Provisions. Eggs—l/3 and 1/5 dozen. Butter—First grade, 1/1J; whey. lid., lb. Bacon.—Price cut rashers. 7d. to 1/4 lb. Cheese.—Mild, Gid. lb.; matured, 1/Ib. ■Honey.—Carton, 7ld. ib. Flour—3/5 251 b bag. Sugar—ls/G 701 b. bag; 3d. Ib. Tea—2/- to 2/0 lb.: China tea. 3/- (b. Bread—sJd. Fruit. Apples, 3d. and Gd. lb.; cooking, 3d. and 4d.; pears, 3d. and 4d.; Californian grapefruit, sd. and Gd. each; oranges, Jamaica, 2/- to 3/6 a dozen, Californian, 4 to 5 1/-; pineapples. lOd. to 2/ -each; bananas, 8 to 14 1/-: lemons, New Zealand, 6 to 12 1/-; Californian, 2d. and 3d. each ; peaches. 3d and Gd. lb.; cooking, 5 to 6 lb. 1/-; apricots. 3d. and Gd. lb.; plums, 3d. to 6d. lb.: cooking. 5 to 81b. 1/-; nectarines, 3d. and Gd. lb.: grapes, hothouse, 10d. 'o 1/2 lb.; rock melons. Gd. to 1/- each: water melons. 2d. and 3d. lb.: blackberries. 4d. and sd. lb.; passionfruit. 12 to 24 1/-; coconuts, 2d. and 3d. each. Vegetables. Cauliflowers. 4d. to lOd. each; cabbage, Gd. to 1/-; lettuce. 2d. to Gd.; earrots. 2d. and 3d. bunch: parsnips. 3d. bunch; swedes. Id. bunch; onions. 2d. and 3d. lb.; spring. 2d. bunch ; pick-, ling, 8 to 10 lb. 1/-; potatoes. G to 8 lb. 1/-: peas 2d. and 4d. lb.; beans. 2d. Gd. lb.: pumpkin. Id. lb.; marrows. Id. to Gd. each: beetroot, 2d. to 3d.; cucumbers, hothouse. 2d. to Gd. each: outdoor, Id. to 3d. each: tomatoes, outdoor. 5 to 12 lb. 1/-: hothouse. 3d. to Gd lb.: shallots, 5 to 7 lb. ]/-; kumeras. 5 lb 1/Fish. Smoked cod. Bd. lb.: smoked fillet. Bd. lb.; smoked ling, 6d. lb.; terakihi fresh. 4d. lb.: cod, Gd. lb.: fillet. 1/- lb : butterfish, Gd. lb.; hapuka, Gd. lb.; flounders, and soles. 9d. lb. Meat. Beef.—Rump steak, lid. Ib.; undercut steak. 1/1 lb.; beef steak, 7d. lb.; sirloin, 9d. lb.; ribs. 7d. lb.: topside. Gd. lb.; rolled 7<l lb.: corned., o<t. and Sib. lb.: mince. sd. lb.: tripe, 7d. lb.: saugages, Gd. lb.; sausage meat, sd. lb. Pork. —Legs, Bd. and 9d. lb :_lotn. 91 lb.: chops. Kkl lb.; sausages, id lb. Mutton.—Lees. 7d. and 8d Ib ; forequarters. 4d. and Gd-: shoulders, (al. and 7d. lb.: loin. Gd. anti 7d lb : loin chops 9d. Ib.: leg and rib chops. Sd lb Lamb.—Legs. 1/- lb.: loins t<M. lb.: hinds. lOd. lb.: forequarters St], lb.: chops. 1/- lb.: spring lamb. 1/2 to 1/0 lb.