HOUSEWIVES’ GUIDE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 228, 23 June 1936, Page 2

HOUSEWIVES’ GUIDE

Eggs Now Selling Cheaper

Several alterations have taken place in the prices of groceries and fruit in Wellington. Eggs are now down to 2/2, 1/11 and 1/9. and cut rashers of bacon are selling at from 1/1 to 1/5 a pound. Cheese has increased Id. Jamaican oranges are now off the market, and grapes have increased to 3/- lb. Pineapples are 1/6 to 2/- each, and sprouts are retailed at from 6d. to Bd. a pound. Prices in the city are:— . Provisions. Eggs.—Large, 2/2 dozen; small, 1/11 dozen; chilled eggs, 1/9 dozen. 1 Butter.'—Unsalted, 1/44; first grade, 1/34. Bacon. —Cut rashers, 1/1 to 1/5 lb. Cheese.—Mild, 84d. lb.; matured, 1/2 lb. Honey.—Carton, BJd. lb. and 104 d.; bulk. 6jd. Sugar.—l6/2 701 b. bag: 3d. lb. Tea—l/10 tft 2/6 lb.; China tea, 3/- lb. Flour—3/9 251 b. bag. Bread.—sdFish. Smoked cod, 1/- lb.; smoked filleted terakihi, lOd. lb.; smoked ling, Gel. lb.; terakihi. fresh, 4d. ,lb.; cod, 6d. lb.; fillet, 1/- lb.; butterfish, 6d. lb.; hapuka, 6d. lb.; flounders and soles. 1/- lb.: cut fish, Bd. lb. Meat. Beef.-r-Rump steak, lid. lb.; undercut steak, 1/1 lb.; beef steak, 7d. lb.; sirloin, 9.1 lb.: ribs. 7d. lb.: topside. 6d and 7d. Ib.; rolled beef, 7d. lb.; corned, 6d. lb.; sausages, sd. Ib.; sausage meat, 5<L Ib. Pork.—Legs, Bd. and 9d. lb.; loin, 9d. Ib.: chops, Bd. and 10d lb.; sausages. 7<L ami 8d lb. Mutton. —Legs, 7d. to 9d. lb.; forequarters, 4d. and 6d.;. shoulders, 6d. and 7d. lb.: loin. 6d. and 7d lb.; loin chops, 9d. lb.; leg and rib chops, Bd. lb. Lamb. — Legs, 1/1 to 1/2 lb.; loins, 1/to 1/2 lb.; forequarters. 9d. lb.; hindquarters. 1/- to 1/1 lb.: chops, 1/2 lb. Fruit Apples, eating, 3d. and 4d. lb„ cooking 51b 1/-: pears. 3d and 4d.; Californian grapefruit. 4d. and 6d each; oranges, Californian, 4 to 6 1/-; Island oranges, 6 to 10 1/-; pineapples, 1/6 to 2/- each; bananas. 8 to 14 1/-; lemons, New Zealand. 8. 10 and 12 1/-; Californian, 2d. and 3d. each ; grapes, 3/- lb.; Cape gooseberries. Bd. lb.; persimmons, 2d. each. , Vegetables. Cauliflowers, 4d. to 1/- each; cabbage, 4d. to Bd.; lettuce. Id. to 3d.; carrots 2d and 3d bunch: parsnips 3d. bunch: swedes. Id. lb.; onions, Iceland 2d. lb.; spring. 2d. bunch ; potatoes, 8 lb. 1/-; piemelon. Id. lb.; silver beet. 2d. and 3d. stick; pumpkin, tri Ib.; marrows, Id to (id each: beetroot. 3d. bunch: tomatoes, 1/4 lb.; tree tomatoes, 6d. lb.; Island ktuneras, 3d. Ib.; radishes, 2d. bunch; rhubarb, 4d. bunch; spinach, bunch; red cabbage, 2d. to 4d.; celery, 3d. to lOd.; white turnips, 3d. bunch; pickling onions. 81b. 1/-; leeks, 3d. lb.; sprouts, 6d. to Sd. lb.