THE SHOPPING BAG

Northern Advocate, 28 December 1934, Page 3

THE SHOPPING BAG

retail prices. eggs cheaper. FRUIT VALUES STEADY. r ’ [Special to “Northern Advocate.”] 1 AUCKLAND, This Day. Most fruit is marked at prices ‘ about the same as those of last week, I i although cherries are a lot cheaper, •1 being obtainable at from 1/6 to 2/ Jper lb, according to quality, while | bananas are slightly dearer, being j now marked in most shops at 6d per lb. | Both cauliflower and asparagus are j now unobtainable, but marrow are | now more plentiful than they have been and are selling more cheaply, | prices ranging from 4d to fid each, i There nas been a rise in the price of green peas and runner beans, the former now costing 8d a lb and the latter 4d a lb. While duck eggs remain at 1/3 a dozen, hen eggs are Id a dozen cheaper than they were last week, being now obtainable at 1/3 and 1/4 a dozen. i Quotations are: j First grade hen eggs, 1/3 to 1/4 per dozen: duck eggs, 1/3 per dozen. Bacon, in cuts, 9d to 1/1 per lb; rashers. 1/2; whole hams, 1/1 per lb; rashers, 1/4. First grade factory butter, 1/ per lb, cash across the counter, Id extra when booked; second grade, lOd per lb; farmers’ butter, 8d per lb; | cheese, mild, full cream, 8d to 1/ per lib; medium cured, 1/ to 1/3. Dessert apples, 3d to 4d per lb; cookers, 2d to 3d per lb; Winter Cole and Winter Nelis pears, 5d per lb; ! Jamaican oranges and Sunkist orianges, 4/per dozen; lemons, 1/ to 1/6 j per dozen; bananas, fid per lb; hot- | house tomatoes, 1/ to 1/4 per lb; outdoor, fid to’ 1/ per lb; pines, 2/ to 2/6 each; Californian grapefruit, 6d each; Californian white grapes, 1/2 per lb; coloured, 1/ per lb; gooseberries, 4d per lb; strawberries, 9d to 1/ per box; Captain Cook, 1/2; cherries, 1/6 to 2/ per lb; peaches, 1/6 to 2/ per dozen; .plums, fid per lb; red currants, lOd per lb; apricots, lOd per lb; loganberries, 8d to 1/ per box. Local, new potatoes, Id per lb; onions, 2d per lb; cabbage, 4d each; lettuce, 3d to 4d each; carrots, parsnips, beet, spinach, leeks, radish, l£d per bundle; kumaras, local, 2d per lb; Island, 3d per Tb; green peas, 8d per lb; runner beans, 4d per lb; broad beans, 2d per lb; marrows, 4d to fid each; cucumbers, 3d to fid each.