A GLANCE AT THE WINDOWS

Northern Advocate, 16 October 1931, Page 3

A GLANCE AT THE WINDOWS

CURRENT WHANGAREI PRICES. I FRUIT. Shoppers Avill find fruit available in good quantities, and the quality can be recommended. The appended report reveals that some lines have fallen in price, Avhilst others have firmed slightly. Good quality Fiji bananas are being sold in all shops at ,easy prices. Oranges are not quite so plentiful and in spine instances are a little dearer.

Apples are quoted as fpljows:—Delicious, 3d and 4d lb; Rome Beauty, 4d; Red Rome 4d; Doughertys 3d, 4d; Munroes, 3d; Ballarat, 3d; Jonathans, 3d; Hawke’a Bay Stumers, 4d; Pigeonett, 3d; Granny Smiths (cooking), 4d and sd.

Pears. —Winter Nelis, 5d and 6dlb; Winter Coles, sd; passions (in short supply), 8d per dozen. Bananas, Fiji, choice quality, 4d and 5d lb; lemons, 6d to 1/3 dozen; pineapples, Fijian 9d to 1/; oranges, Island, 2/3 to 2/6 dozen, Valencia, from 1/6 dozen, local navels, 6d to 8d dozen (good quality), Sydney navels, short supplies, 2/3 dozen; mandarins, 1/dozen; Poor Man’s, 4d to 9d dozen; Californian red grapes, 1/4 per lb, white 1/ to 1/2 per lb. Cocoanuts, 4d and Cd each; tree tomatoes, Cd lb; loquats, local, 4d lb. Vegetables. The potato market is a little unsteady at present, with a tendency to prices firming in the near future. Southern potatoes are still procurable this week-end in quarter lots at 1/3. Supplies of vegetables are by no means scarce, and a good variety is offering at easy prices. Locally grown cucumbers and tomatoes are being sold in some shops. Southern potatoes are quoted at 1/3 quarter; new potatoes, from 2-Jd to 3d lb; onions, Australian, 81bs 1/; Californian, 61bs 1/. Island kumeras (short supplies), slbs 1/, local 3d lb; swedes, l|d; white turnips, Id; carrots, Id and lid; parsnips, lid; red beet, lsd; sprouts, 8d; head celery, from 4d -to 6d; lettuce, 2d to 3d each; tomatoes, local, hothouse, 1/6 lb; pumpkin, to 2d lb; pie melon, l£d; cabbage, 3d to 7d each; cauliflower, 6d to 1/each; fresh supplies choice leeks, 3d bunch; asparagus, 6d to 9d bunch; radish, 2d bunch; cucumbers, Sydney grown 6d each, local from 2d to 8d each; rhubarb, 4d bunch. ■: ' ( Plants. 1 Tomato plants, lOd to 1/ dozen; lettuce plants, 1/6 per 100; variety • flower plants from 6d to 1/ dozen; cabbage plants, 6d for 25; cauliflower, 6d for 25; onions, 8d per 100. Iceland poppy blooms, 1/ per 100. Eggs, Butter and Cheese. Hen Eggs, 1/ and 1/1 dozen; duck j eggs, 1/ and VI dozen. ( Butter, superfine, 1/2; second grade ; 1/L - Cheese, mild, full-cream, 9sd to 1/ j lb; medium matured, 1/ to 1/4 lb. ( Bacon and Hams. 1 Bacon in cuts, 7d to 1/ lb; rashers, 1/ to 1/2 lb; whole hams, 1/ lb. i Meat. (Cash at Shops.) Beef. —Rump steak, lid and 1/ lb; fillet steak, 1/1; beef steak, 6d; skirt ' steak, 6d; sirloin, 7d; prime rib, 6d; wing rib, 6d; topside, 41bs and over, sd; bolar, sd; corned beef, 4d to 6d lb; brisket, 3d; flank, 3d; gravy beef, 3d; mince, sd; tripe, 6d; dripping, ; sd; suet, 3d; sausages, 4§d, 3 lbs 1/; ' shins beef, 1/6 each; ox kidney, 9d lb; ox tongue, 6d lb; ox tail, 6d lb. Muttdn. —Whole leg, 6d lb; half leg, 7d; hind quarter, 5Jd; fore quarter, 3£d; shoulder, 5Jd; neck, Gd; loin,' s|d; leg and loin chops, lb; stewing chops, 6|d; flaps, 3d; cutlet, lOd; sheep kidneys, 3d pair; sheep tongues, 2d each; sheep fry, 4d each; 1 sheep brains, 2d each. Pork. —Leg, lOd lb; loin, lOd; loin chop, lid; pickled pork, 8d; pork sausages, 6d lb.

Fish. The. prices quoted, locally, are as follows:—Smoked schnapper, 8d lb; fresh, 5d lb; fillets, 8d; skinned, lid; mullet, smoked 9d, fresh fid; blue cod, fresh, fid, smoked 9d; gurnard 4 for 1/; terekihi fresh 3d lb, smoked fid lb; whitebait, 2/6 pint; flounder 9d; crayfish, 7d; Coromandel mussels, 1/6 dozen; cooked, 2/ dozen.