SHOPPING BAG

Northern Advocate, 21 April 1933, Page 9

SHOPPING BAG

HEAVY VEGETABLE SUPPLIES. TOMATOES FALLING OFF. < Special to ’“Notthen- Advocate." t AUCKLAND, This Day. Today’s quotations are as follows: — Fresh hen eggs, 2/2 per doz; duck, 1/10 to 2/ per doz. Bacon, in cuts, C4d to lOd per lb; rashers, 9d to 1/; whole hams, 1/ per lb; rashers, 1/2 per lb. First grade butter, lid per lb cash across the counter, Id extra when booked; second grade, lOd per lb. Farmers’ butter 9d per lb. Cheese, mild, full cream, 9d to 1/ per lb; medium matured, 1/2 to 1/3 per lb. Fruit.—Apples: Dessert, 3d to 4d per lb; cookers, 2d per lb. Island oranges; 1/G to 2/ per doz. Mandarines: 1/ per doz. Californian oranges: 3/ per do/. Lemons: 1/ to 1/2 per doz. Tomatoes: -Id to Sd per lb. Bananas: 3d to ud per lb. Pears: 3d to 4d. Cape gooseberries; ml. Passions: Small, 4d to (id per doz; large, 1/ per doz. Grapes: Te Kauwhata, Sd to lOd per lb; white, 1/ to 1/2 and hothouse, 1/0 to 2/0 according to variety. Quinces: 4d per lb. Californian grapefruit: Od each. Figs: 4d to Sd per doz. New potatoes, Id per lb; swedes, Id per lb; pumpkins, Id per lb; onions, Id per lb; kumeras, Id per lb; cucumber:-!, 3d to 4d each; rhubarb, 2d per bundle; lettuce, 2d to 3d each; cabbage, 7d to 9d each; cauliflower, (id to 9d; runner'beans, 3d per lb; peas, (id per lb; marrows, 3d to 4d each; carrots, parsnips, turnips, radish, beet, leeks and spring onions, Id per bunch; celery, 3d to 4d per head.