Shoppers Guide.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3384, 25 July 1927, Page 4

Shoppers Guide.

Retail prices in Dunedin today— Eggs are selling at 2s 7d and 2s a dozen. Butter is 8d lb, and is 4d for cooking. Bacon is Is 3d. Meat Prices remain firm— While Burnside prices have risen! slightly the increase has not Deen sufficient to warrant an alteration to prices in the shops, mutton and beef 3d to lid, mince 4d, corned beef to Bd, lamb 7d to 9d, pork Is id. Fish is in short supply. Prices Groper 8d lb, kingfish xod, ling 4dlb, red cod 4d lb, trevalli 4d, soles from 3d each ; flounders from 4s a dozen, oysters ls6d pottle of 2 dozen, smoked blue cod is 3d lb. Fruit—Pears 5d and 6d lb, bananas 8 for Is, Apples, Cox’s 6d lb and 3lb for ls3d, Delicious 6d and 3lb for is 3d, Jonathans 6d lb and 4lb for is 6d; small dessert 3d lb; grape fruit 8d each, passion fruit 8 for is, Californian 1 lemons 3d each and 5 for is. Poorman oranges (marmalade) 6d lb, pineapples is 6d and 2s each. New Zealand lemons 8 for Is. Vegetables—Onions 12 lb for Is, or 7s cwt, pumpkin slb for is, local potatoes I2lb for is, hothouse cucumbers Is to 2s each, cabbages 6d to 8d each, swede turnips 14 lb for Is, cauliflowers 9d to Is 4d each, celery (long sticks) 6d each, marrow 4d per lb ; artichokes lb,

Mr Ted Wilson, of Lauder, was the victim of a painful accident last week, through the accidental discharging of a rifle. One of his fingers had to be amputated, and he is an inmate of the Dunstan Hospital. The Loyal Vinecnt Lodge will hold a card party (for u which handsome prizes will be given) and social in the Ophir Hall on Friday, 29th inst. Hard frosts continue, and there is still something of a water famine in Clyde. This is the result of burst mains, which entail a lot of work to replace. A scandal in Canterbury College has by turns amused and angered students. The Professorial Board heard and took serious notice of a report that there was unseemly conduct among the members of a Canterbury College party going to Auckland tor the Easter tournament. The worst allegation seems to have been that, on the Main Trnnk train, young women students sat on the knees of male students. Under cross-examination the students declared that there was no unseemly conduct, but it was admitted that in the crowded carriage girls may have for a time sat on the young men’s knee. The finding of the Board has not yet been given. How often have you heard the words “Nobody passed me but a man with a Chrysler.” “A Chrysler couldn’t have got me there ql.ukfcr”or such like expression, jr *-v words there is an impress iuii mowing stronger day by day li ose who follow the . ■ 1 motor cars, that the i i is always a little faster, :c more eager at the stops ,:v . ■, i.< rs, a little more deter- . the hills. Todd Motor . vuin.