RETAIL PRICES

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 283, 27 August 1935, Page 2

RETAIL PRICES

What to Pay For Foodstuffs In Wellington

Another shipment of Californian plums is now on the Wellington market, aud the fruit s selling at 10(1. to 1/- a pound. Other retail prices are unchanged. Present prices are as follow:— Provisions. ” Eggs—l/2 to 1/5 a dozen. Butter—First grade, l/li lb.; creamery. 1/0} lb.; whey, lid. lb. Bacon. —Cut rashers, 7d. to 1/4 lb. Cheese.—Mild. 6}(l. lb.: matured, 1/ lb. Honey.—Cut-ton. B}J. lb. Sugar—l6/2 701 b. bag; 3d. lb. Tea—2/- to 2/6 lb.: China tea, 3/- lb Flour—3/4 251 b. bag. Bread—sjd. Fruit. Apples, 3 to 6 lb. 1/-; cooking, 41b. 1/-; penis, 4d. and 6d.; Californian grapefruit, 4d. and (id. each; oranges Californian, 4to 6 1/-: Island, 4 to 8 1/-; nave] 4 to 10 1/-; marmalade, 6 to 12 ]/-; mandarins, 8 to 14 1/-; pineapples, 1/3 tc 2/- each; bananas, 8 to 14 1/-; lemons, New Zealand. 8 to 24 1/-; Californian, 2d. and 3d. each; plums, Californian, lOd. to 1/- 11).; coconuts, 2d. and 3d. each ; paw paws, Bd. to 1/6 each. Vegetables. Cauliflowers, 4d. to 1/- each; cabbage, 4d. to 1/-; lettuce, Id. to 3d.; carrots, 2d. and 3d. bunch; parsnips, 3d. bunch; swedes, Id. lb.; onions, 51b. 1/-; spring, 2d. bunch; pickling. 81b. 1/-; potatoes, 3d. am! 4(1. lb.; Bto Kill). 1/-; beans, ]/- to 1/6 lb.; pumpkin, Id lb.; marrows, Id. to 6(1. each: beetroot, 2d to 3d; tomatoes, hothouse, 1/- to 1/6 lb.; Island, 4d. tc 6d. lb.; cucumbers, hothouse, 1/3 to 1/6 each; Islan 1 kumeras, 4(1. lb.: silver beet, 2d. and 4d bunch; spinach. Id. to 2d. bunch; celery, 2d. to fid. a stick: brussels sprouts, 6d. to Sd. lb.; artichokes, 2d. lb.; leeks, 2d. and 3d. lb. Fish. Smoked cod, Bd. lb.; amoked fillet, 8d lb.; smoked ling, fid. lb.; terakihi. fresh 4d. lb.; cod. 6d. lb.; fillet. 1/- lb.; butter fish, 6d. lb.; hamika fid lb.: flounders and soles, 9(1. lb.; whitebait, 1/6 pot. Meat. Beef.—Rump steak, lid. lb.; undercut steak, 1/1 lb.; beef steal;, 7d. lb.; sirloin, fid lb., ribs. 7d. lb.; topside, fid lb.; rolled 7d lb.; corned 6(1 aud 81b lb.; mince, 5(1. lb.; tripe, 7d. Ib.; sausages, lid. lb.. sausage meat, od. lb. Pork.- Legs, Sd. and 9(1 lb , loin. IM lb.; chops. Wd lb.; sausages. 7d. lb Mutton. — 7d. find 8d ib.; fore quarters, 4d and (id.. shoulders, fid. ano 7d lb.; loin, fid and 7d Ib . loin ebops fid. Ib.. leg nnd rib chops, 8d lb Lamb.—Legs. 1/- lb.; loins, lid. b.; hinds, lid. lb.; forequarters, Bd. Ib.; ebops. I/- lb