LONDON RETAIL PRICES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 89, 30 March 1932, Page 4

LONDON RETAIL PRICES

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE. Harrods, London, would bo considered in the category of first-class stores. Compared with the Smithfield and Dairy Produce Exchange wholesale prices, Harrod’s retail rates as published 11th February make interesting reading. For instance, a specialty was made of New Zealand new season’s lamb, shoulders at Old. per pound; New Zealand new season’s mutton prices were shoulders 9Jd, loins ano saddles Is, chops 1/6, legs Is, cutlets l/o, necks Bd. English and Scotch mutton sells at Is to 1/4 per lb fot shoulders, 1/6 for saddles, 1/8 for loins, and 2/- for chops, legs (over 61b) and necks (over 61b), 1/3; cutlets 2/-; New Zealand cheese is quoted at 9d, English 1/4, Canadian lid; New Zealand butter (salt) 1/3, Australian 1/1. English rabbits are lid per lb; spring chickens 4s to 4/6 bach; English boiling fowls lid per lb and others 1/7 ; Norfolk ducks 1/6 per lb; turkey 1/10 per lb; goslings. 1/1 per lb. Alf birds weighed before trussing. English eggs were 1/9 per doz.; Belgian 1/6. Bacon ranged from 1/9 per lb. for Wiltshire back, 1/2 for Danish back, and 1/6 for Irish back, with lowei prices for streaky or belly bacon. Lower prices than these would be charged in shops in certain neighbourhoods of the Loudon area and in the large provincial cities.