THE MARKET BASKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20821, 13 March 1931, Page 7

THE MARKET BASKET.

RETAIL FOOD PRICES. A GUIDE TO HOUSEWIVES. With the exception of the prices for bacon, which are about a penny a pound cheaper, there are no changes of note in the values for foodstuffs this week. Eggs are selling at the unaltered rate of Is 8d a dozen. There are plentiful supplies of all commodities. Following are yesterday's prices FRUIT. Apples, Gravenatein, coloured, 3d to 5d per lb; Cox's Orange Pippin. 3d to sd; cooking apples, 2d and 3d; plums, Gd to 8d; Bon Ohrotion pears, 4d; apricots, 4d to (id; passion fruit, 8d and lOd; outdoor tomatoes, 2d and 3d; hothouse grapes, Is to Is 4d; bananas, 5d and Gd; local lemons, Is to la Gd a dozen; Californian grapefruit, 5d each; peaches, cooking, 8d to la n dozen; peaches, dessert, Is Gd to 2s Gd; blackberries, lOd ft chip; Sydney pines, is to Is Gd each; water melon, 2d per lb; rock melon, Gd to Is Gd each. VEGETABLES. Potatoes, 101b and 12lb for Is; swedes. Id per II); pumpkin, l}d; marrows, 2d to 4d each; onions, 2d per lb; French beans, 2d; Scarlet Runner beans, 3d; Rreen peas, 3d and 4d; cucumbers, 2d and 3d each; celery. 3d to Gd; lettuce, 2d and 3d; cabbage, Gd to lOd; carrot, parsnip, radish, _ spinach, turnip, beetroot, leek, spring onions, ljd and 2d a bunch; rhubarb, 2d. MEAT. Beef.—Rump steak, Is; undercut. Is 3d; all beef steak, 7d: skirt steak, 7d; sirloin, 8d; prime'ribs, Gd; prime ribs, boned and rolled. Sd; wing rib, three chine bones, 7d; topside, 41b and over, Gd: thick flank, Gd; bolars, Gd; double top rib, Gd; chuck rib, 4id; rolled back rib, 7d; corned round, 7d; corned brisket, boned. Gd; brisket and flat rib, 4d: thin flank, 3d; gravy beef or shin meat, 3d; minced beef, 4d; tripe, Gd; dripping, Gd; suet, sd; sausages, Gd; sausage meat, sd; whole shins or legs, 2d; half shins or legs, thick end, 3d; half shins or legs, knuckle end. 2d; ox kidneys, Id; ox tongues, 9d; ox tails, 8d; whole loins, 8d; whole .rumps, ltd. Mutton.—Whole leg, Gd; leg, shank end, Gib or under, 7}d; hindouartffr, G}d; forequnrtec, 3jd; shoulder, s!d; shank end of forequarter, 4}d; necks, sd: loin, 7d; neck and breast, 4d; leg and loin chops, 8d; neck chops, Gd; flaps, 2d; cutlets, trimmed, Is; side, 3Jd; kidneys, 2d each; tongues, 2d; sheep's hoad, dressed, Gd; sheep's fry, 8d; sheep's brains, 3d. Veal.—Fillets, 8d; loins, Gd; shoulder, 4d; cutlets and veal steak. Is; chops, 7d; forequarters, 3d; rolled veal, Gd. Pork.—Leg, 30d: loin, 10} d; fore-loin with blade, 8d; pork chons, lid; corned hand, 7d; corned belly, 1 Od; pork sausages, Bd. FISH. Rchnapper, whole, 5d per lb; trimmed, fid; smoked, lOcl; terekihi, whole. 4d; smoked, 7d; kinpered fillets, Is; trevalli, whole. 2d; smoked. Gd; John Lory, whole, 8d; fillets. Is; mullet, whole, Gd; smoked. 9d: flounder. Is; extra larcrc flounder. 10d; dabs, lOd; lemon fish, fillets, Gd; silver strip, smoked, 7d: hapuku, steaks, Is; wings, smoked, 8d; mold steaks, Gd; kingfish, steaks, Gd; cod, smoked, Is Gd; gurnard, whole. 3d: bnrracouta, whole. Gd: smoked. - 8d: frostfish, whole., 4d; hake, whole, Gd; kippers, Scotch, Is a pair; crayfish, up to 21 b, 10d: 2lb to 3Jlb, 8d; 351b to fill), Gd: over slh, 2a each; roes, smoked. 2s Gd per lb; mussels, fresh, Is Gd dozen: pickled, 3s Gd a bottle: rabbits, Is each. Is lid a, pair; hares, Is Gd each; mutton birds, Is; cod fillets, Scotch, is Gd per lb; whiting, Is Gd; findon haddock, Is Gd; salmon, Canadian, Is Od. BACON AND HAMS. Bacon.—Shoulder rashers, lid nor lb; best rib rashers, Is 3d; by pieces, Is 2d; shoulder cuts. 7jd to Is. ITnnis.—"Whole, Is Id ner lb; in rashers, Is Gd; cooked, 2s; shoulders, cooked, Is Bd. BUTT MR AND CHEESE. Butter.—Factory, first grade, Is 4d per lb: second grade. Is 2d; farmers' butter, ltd. Cheese, ordinary, Is: more matured. Is 4d. EGGS. Hen and duck eggs, Is 8d a dozen. PROPERTY SALES. C. F. Bennett, Limited, will offor at auction at their rooms, corner Queen and Short land Streets, at noon to-day, section and buildings at 33, Kelvin Road, Remuera; 4-roomed bungalow in Paihin Road, On.o Tree Hill; 4-roomed bungalow at 30, Amaru Road, Royal Oak, and G-roomed llouso at 8, Burgoyno Street, Newton. T. Mandeno Jackson will offer at auction at their rooms, 9, Commerco Street,_ at 11 o'clock this morning, freehold section of fivo acres and 4-roomed house, with frontage to tho main Howick road, just beyond the Fakurnnga School. Samuel Vaile and £'ons, Limited, will offer at auction at their rooms, 83, Queen Street, at two o'clock this afternoon, a 5-roomed bungalow in St. George Street, Papatoetoe; 4-roomed bungalow in Grand Avenue, Mount Albert; 4-roomed house in Dignan Road, Point Chevalier; G-roomed house at 32, Marlborough Street. Mount Eden; 4-roomed house in Muripara Avenue, Point Chevalier; G-roomed house in Victoria Road, Avondale: and 5-roomed bungalow at 58, Fowlds Avenue. Mount Albert. Neville Nowcomb, Ijimilca, will ofier at auction at their rooms, 4, Wyndham Street, at noon to-day. farm property of 280 acres and building? about 1J miles from the Mercer railway station T Mclndoe and Son will offer at, unction at their rooms, 30G, Dilworth Building, nt 11 o'clock this morning, 6-roomed house on a freehold section at 47, Victoria Street, Onehuiiga.