SHOPPERS’ GUIDE
TO-DAY'S CASH PBICES Prices for cash sales are given in tile guide. Eggs have increased in price, now selling at Is 9d and Is lOd. Meat prices are unchanged:— Mutton, 3|d to 8d per lb; lamb, fore-quarters 11s, hinds 12s; beef —roasts 4d to 7d, steak 4d to 10d, corned 4d to 8d; mince, sd> Fish prices are:—Groper, 8d per lb; kingfish, 8d per lb; terakihi, 8d per lb; soles, from 3d each; flounders, from 4d each; blue cod, 1s per lb; red cod, 6d per lb; ling, 31b for Is; gbrfish, 2s to 3s dozen 8d per glass; smoked blue cod, Is 3d per lb; large smoked terakihi, 8d to Is each. Vegetable prices are:—Cauliflowers, 8d to 3d; large size, Is 3d to Is 6d; hothouse cucumbers, 1s 3d to 1s 9d, outside-grown cucumbers, 6d to 9d; lettuce, 2d to fid; spring cabbages, 4d to fid; asparagus, Is to Is 3d; Huttgrown new potatoes, 4d per lb; Peninsula potatoes, Is fid per lb; green peas, fid; rhubarb, 4d; old potatoes, 12lb for Is, 6s fid per cwt. Fruit prices are:—Valencia oranges, 4 and 5 for Is; New Zealand lemons, 6 for Is; local hothouse tomatoes, 2s per lb; Rarotongan tomatoes, Is 3d per lb; bananas, 8 and 10 for Is; Californian grapes, 2s per lb; Californian lemons,*4 and 5 for Is; green gooseberries, fid; cooking pears, 4d; apple prices—Canadian Mackintosh’s red, 6 for 1s; Summers, fid per lb (3lb for Is 3d); Delicious, fid; Docherty, 4d and fid.
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Evening Star, Issue 19410, 19 November 1926, Page 6
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251SHOPPERS’ GUIDE Evening Star, Issue 19410, 19 November 1926, Page 6
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