THE SHOPPING BAG

Northern Advocate, 14 June 1935, Page 9

THE SHOPPING BAG

RETAIL PRICES. BANANAS CHEAP LINE. ' [Special zo "Northern Advocate”! AUCKLAND, This Day. Owing to the arrival, within, a few days of each other last week, of two ships laden with bananas —the Waipahi from Fiji, and the Port Whangarei from Tonga—there are large supplies of bananas in Auckland, which are coming on the market as fast as they ripen, and are selling cheaply, though the quality is good. Retail prices are again lower than last week, some of the fruit being marked at 2d per lb. the cheapest that it has been for, a long time. , Larger supplies of local grapefruit are now coming on the markets, and prices are lower. The prices of most other varieties of fruit and vegetables remain unaltered from last week. Quotations are: — First grade hen eggs, 2/6 per dozen; duck, 2/2 per dozen; bacon in cuts, 9cl to 1/1' per lb; rashers, 1/4; whole hams. 1/2.’. per lb: ham rashers. 1/5 per lb. First-grade factory butter, 1/1 per lb; second-grade, lid; Farmers butter. 9d; cheese, mild, full cream. 8d to 1/- per lb; medium, matured. 1/- to 1/3 per lb. Dessert apples, 3d to 4d per lb; cookers. 3d per lb: pears, 3d to 4d; oranges. ■ i/c to 2 / 6 per doz.; lemons, 1/- to 1/6 per doz.: bananas. 2d to 3d per lb: tomatoes. 8d to 1/- per lb; pines, 1/0 to 2/0 each: Jamafcan and Californian grapefruit. Gd each; local grapefruit, 1/- 1o l 2 per dozen; hothouse grapes, [ 1/0 to 3 - per lb; mandarins. 1/- to 1/0 I per doz.; tree tomatoes. 4d to Gd per lb. Pol aloes, 2d per lb; kumeras. 2d per lb; onions' 2d and 3d per lb; cabbage. 3d to Gd each; cauliflower. 4d to lOd j each; lettuce. 2d to 3d; carrots, parsnips. beet, spinach, leeks, radish, lid (per bundle; hothouse beans, 1/- per lb; j outdoor beans, 8d to lOd per lb; mar- | rows, 2d to fid each; pumpkins, lid to j 2d per lb; celery. 2d to 4d a head; art:chokes. 2d per lb; silver beet, 2d per (bunch; hothouse cucumbers, 8d each.