HOUSEWIVES’ GUIDE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 2

HOUSEWIVES’ GUIDE

Retail Food Prices In Wellington No changes have taken place in the retail prices of foodstuffs in Wellington city .“hops during the last few days. Eggs remain at ii’om 1/3 to 1/5 a dozen, and butter at 1/14 and 1/2 for the first grade article. Current prices are as follow :— < Provisions. Eggs—l/3 to 1/5 per dozen. Rutter. —First grade, 1/11 and 1/2. Bacon.—Cut rushers, 1/- to 1/4 lb. Cheese.—Mild, 7d. lb,; matured, 1/- lb. Honey.—Carton. BJd. lb., and 9jd. Sugar—l6/5 701 b. bag; 3d. lb. Tea—2/- to 2/6 lb.: China tea, 3/- lb, Flour —3/4 251 b. bag. Bread —5Jd, Fruit, 9 Apples sd. and Gd. lb.; cooking, 41b. 1/-; pears, 4d. and 6d.; Californian grapefruit, 4d. and 6d. each; oranges Californian, 4 to 6 1/-; Jamaican, 4 to 8 1/-; Island, 3d. each; pineapples, 1/6 to 2/6 each; bananas, 8 to 14 1/-; lemons, New Zealand, 8 to 20 1/-; Californian, 3d. each ; plums, 4d. to Bd. lb.; coconuts, 2d. and 3d. each ; pawpaws, Bd. to 1/6 each: grapes, Californian, 1/4 to 1/6 lb.; strawberries, lOd. to 1/8 a punnet; cherries, lOd. to 1/6 lb.; peaches, 4d, to Gd. lb.; pltimsi, Gd. to Bd. lb.; cherry plums. 3d. lb,; gooseberries, 3d. lb.; apricots, Gd. lb.; black currants, Sd. Ib. Vegetables. Cauliflowers, 2d. to Gd. each; cabbage, 3d. to Gd.; lettuce, Id. to 4d.; carrots, 2d. and 3d. bunch; parsnips, 3d. bunch; swedes, 2d. lb.; onions, 2d. lb.; spring, 2d. bunch , potatoes, Bto 12 lb. 1/-; pumpkin. 1 id. lb.; marrowy, Id. to Gd. each; beetroot, 3d bunch; tomatoes, hothouse, Gd. to 1/- lb.; Island. 1/- lb.; cucumbers, hothouse, 3d. to Gd. eech; Island kumeras, 4d. lb.; spinach. 2d. bunch; green peas, -Id. lb.; radishes, 2d., bunch ; rhubarb, 3d to Gd. hunch; French beans, -Id. to Sd. lb.: scarlet runners, Bd. lb. Fish. Smoked cod, bd. lb.; smoked fillet, Bd. lb.; smoked ling. Gd. lb.; terakihi, fresh 4d lb.; cod, 6d. lb.; fillet, 1/- lb.; butter fish, 6d. lb.; hnpuka, Gd. lb.; flounders, and soles, 9d. lb. Meat. B ec f. —Hump steak, lid. lb.; undercut steak 1/1 lb.: beef steak, 7d. lb.; sirloin, 9d lb.; ribs. 7d. lb.: topside. Gd lb.; rolled 7d. lb.; corned, Gd. and Bd. lb.: mince, 4d. to sd. Ib; tripe, 7d. lb; sausages, fid. Ib.; sausage meat fid. lb —Legs, Bd. and 9d. lb.; loin, Jd. lb.; chops, Bd. and lOd. lb.; sausages, <d. '^Mutton.—Legs, 7d. and 8d Ib.; fore quarters, 4d and 6d.; shoulders, 6d. anf 7d. lb.; loin. Gd. and 7d Ib ; loin chops 9d. Ib.: leg and rib chops, 8d lb. Last season’s lamb. —Legs. !/• lb.; loins, Ild. lb.: binds, lid lb.; forequnrters, Ib.: chops, 1/- lb. Spring lamb.— Forequarters. 1/-. hindquarters. 1/4 lb.