SHOPPERS’ GUIDE

Evening Star, Issue 20309, 18 October 1929, Page 8

SHOPPERS’ GUIDE

TO-DAY'S CASH PRICES The guide gives the prices ruling for cash in the city shops to-day. Meat prices:—Beef (roast) from 6d to 9d per lb; corned beef, 7d lb; mutton, from 5d to 9d lb; lamb, from lOd lb; pork, from lOd to Is lb. Grocery prices are:—Sugar, 2?d lb; eggs, Is 4d and is 5d per dozen; butter, Is 8d and Is 10d per lb; cheese, is, 1s 2d, and Is 4d (matured) lb; bacon, Is 2d and Is 4d lb; flour, 10s 9d (50’s) and 5s 8d (25’s). Other lines are steady. Vegetable prices are:—Prime onions, 41b Is; Taieri potatoes, 81b for Is; cabbages, 4d and 6d each; cauliflowers, 6d and Is; lettuce, 3d and 8d each; swedes, 141 b for Is; spinach, 2d bunch, tomatoes, 8d and Is lb; local hothouse tomatoes, 4s per lb; rhubarb, 3d bunch; hothouse cucumbers, Is 6d and 2s; tomatoes, 1s; kumaras, 3d; spring cabbages, 4d and 6d. Fruit is:—Navel oranges, 3 and 4 for Is, and 3 for Is 3d; lemons, 5 for is; Mildura lemons, 8 for Is; bananas, 10 and 12 for Is; new season’s figs, 4d per packet; new season’s dates, 6d per packet, 3 packets Is 3d; Delicious apples, 8d per lb, or 31b for Is 9d; Seville oranges (for marmalade), 6d lb; Sturmer apples, 4d and 6d lb, and 31b for 1s 3d; grapes, Is 6d and 2s.