SHOPPING IN 1882

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11539, 16 January 1932, Page 5

SHOPPING IN 1882

BUTTER WAS 1 7d. PER POUND. CHEAP DRESS MATERIAL. MASTEIITON, January 14Prices quoted by a Greytown store in an issue of a Wairarapa newspaper published 50 years ago should prove of interest to present-day shoppers.

Best quality fresh butter was 7d per lb. Four, from the M©a ter ton mills, was sold- at 12s per 1001 b. and the best table potatoes 3s per owt. Oatmeal was 3s 9d for 251 b. bag, and 1 a 401 b; bag of sugar realised 14s, or 41 d per lb. The drapery department was offering stout unbleached calico at 3}d pen yard. White sheeting could be purchased at Is per yard, and grey at lid. Prints in all fashionable colours were on sale at 6d per yard, while Turkish and honeycomb towels were obtainable from 4jd and damask tablings from 1/6 per yard; G ; /-• / Fashionable dress materials were priced at 6d and'9d P° r yard. Halfguinea stockings were not in vogue in those days, Women’s and children's hose'in cotton, merino and cashmere ■being" offered for from" 4jd per pair. 'Women’s kid gjoves were 2/6 per pair and corsets from: 2s 6d. Men’s sac find' froin 35s to 90s'j and tweej. trousers from 10s' upward. Moleskin ' trouser were selling'froin 8s- per pair, waterproof coats from 12s I Gd, and men’s and bdys’ linen-faced paper collars from 6d to lOd per dozen.' The 21b loaf 1 was: then - being - sold •f or 3d. •