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SHOPPERS’ GUIDE

TO-DAY'S CASH PRICES The shoppers' guide gives the lowest cash prices ruling in tne city shops to-day. Eggs are 1s 6d per dozen; filour 5s 8d (for 25'sy, and 10s 9d (for 50’s); sugar is 3d per lb, and 16s for 70’s. Meat prices:--Beef (roast), 6d to 9d; corned beef, 7d; mutton, from 5d to 9d; lamb, from 10d lb; pork, from 10d to Is. Fish prices Groper, 8d lb; kingfish, 8d lb; blue cod, 8d lb; soles, from 3d each; flounders, from 4d each; smoked blue cod, 1-s lb; smoked barracouta, Is each; Yarmouth bloaters, 4d each; Scotch fillet, Is 4d ib; mutton birds, from 9d; fowls, from 2s each; ducks, from 2s 6d each. Vegetable prices are:—Melbourne onions, Sib for Is; Peninsula potatoes, Sib for Is; cabbages, 4d and 6d; hothouse cucumbers, from 10d to Is 6d; outside cucumbers, from 6d; green peas, 31b for 1s 3d; lettuce, from 2d each; rhubarb, 4d Ib; cauliflowers, from 6d each; local hothouse tomatoes, Is 3d, Christchurch hothouse, Is, Nelson tomatoes, 9d; butter beans, 9d Ib; French beans, 9d Ib; swedes, Id Ib. Fruit is:—Sturmer apples 6d Ib, or 31b for Is sd; navel oranges, 3 for Is; Valencia oranges, 6 and 8 for Is; Italian lemons, 3d each, or 5 for Is; grapefruit, fid each; bananas, 8 for 1s; grapes, 2s fid per Ib; new season’s figs, fid per packet; cooking peaches, 4d Ib; peaches (dessert), fid and 8d Ib; apricots, 6d and 8d Ib, cooking 4d; plums (dessert), fid and 8d Ib; cooking plums, 3d Ib; Gravenstein apples (new Season’s), fid Ib; nectarines, 8d Ib.

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Evening Star, Issue 20089, 1 February 1929, Page 8

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SHOPPERS’ GUIDE Evening Star, Issue 20089, 1 February 1929, Page 8

SHOPPERS’ GUIDE Evening Star, Issue 20089, 1 February 1929, Page 8