HOUSEWIVES’ GUIDE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 2

HOUSEWIVES’ GUIDE

Butter Rises Id. lb. A rise of Id. lb. in butter is the only marked change in the retail prices of foodstuffs in YVellington in tlie hist few days. Retail prices of foodstuffs at present are as follow :— Provisions. Fggs.—Large, 2/6 dozen ; small. 1/11 dozen. „ , Butter.—Unsnlted, 1/3J; first grade, 1/2J. Bacon. —Cut rashers, 1/- to 1/4 lb. Cheese.— Mild, 7cl. lb.; matured. 1/- lb. Honey.—Carton, 81(1. ib.. and 9id • bulk, 61(1, Sugar.—l6/2 70lb. bag; 3d. lb. Tea.—l/9 to 2/6 lb.; China tea. 3/- lb. Flour.—3/8 251 b. bag. Bread. —sd. Fish. Smoked cod, 1/- lb.; smoked filleted terakihi, 10(1. lb.; smoked ling, 6d. lb.; terakihi. fresh. 4<l. lb.; cod, 6d. lb.; fillet, 1/- lb.; biitterfish, 6d. lb.; hapukn, 6d. lb.; flounders and soles, 1/- lb.; cut fish, Sd. lb. Meat. Beef. —Rump steak, lid. lb.; undercut steak, 1/1 lb.; beef steak, 7d. Ib.; sirlom. 9,1 lb ; ribs, 7d. lb.: topside, (id. and 7d. lb.; rolled beef, 7d. lb.; corned, 6d. Ib.; sausages, sd. lb.; sausage meat. 5d "’’pork.— Legs, Bd. and 9d. lb.; loin, 9(1. Ib.: chops. Sd. and Wd Ib.: sausages. Id and Bd. lb. Mutton.— Lego. 7d to Oil. Ib.; lorequarters, 4d. and 6(1.; shoulders. Gd. and 7d. lb.; loin. (id. and 7d. lb.; loin chops. 9(1" lb.; leg and rib chops. Bd. lb. Lamb. —Legs, 1/1 to 1/2 Ib.; loins, 1/ to 1/2 lb.; forequarters, 9d. lb.; hindquarters. 1/- to 1/1 lb.; chops. 1/2 lb. Fruit. Apples, eating, 3d. and -Id. lb., cooking 51b. 1/-; pears, 3d. and 4d.; Californian grapefruit, 4d. and bd. cacli, oranges, 1 Californian. 4 to 6 1/-; Jamaican. 4 to 5 l/-i pineapples, 9d. to 1/9 each; I bananas. 8 to 14 1/-; lemons. New Zea/j.ind 8 and .10 1/-: Californian. 2d and 3d. each; grapes, 2/- lb.; Cape gooseberries, 8(1. lb.; persimmons, 2d. each. Vegetables. Cauliflowers, Gd. to 1/- each; cabbage, -Id. I" Sd.: lettuce, Id. to 3d.; carrots. 2d. and 3d bunch; parsnips. 3d. bunch; swedes. 1(1. lb.; onions, lid. lb.: spring, 2d. bunch; potatoes, 8 lb. 1/-: pieinelon, Id. lb.; silver beet. 2d. and 3d. slick; pumpkin, Li. Ib.; marrows, Id to Gd. elicit; beetroot, 3d. bunch; loimitiics, 10(1. lb.; Island kutneras, 4d. lb.; radishes, 2d, bunch ; green peas, -hl. lb.; rliulnirh, 3d. to (id. bunch; spinach, 2d. bunch; red cabbage, 2d. to 4(1.; celery. 2d. (olOd.; French beans, lOd. Ib.; sweet corn, 2d. to ‘ld e-ob; white turnips. 3d. bunch.