CITY RETAIL PRICES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Cash retail p-.ices at present being charged over the counter in Wanganui for various commodities are as follows: Groceries: Good table butter Is 8d lb.; cooked ham Is lid lb.; bacon, best cut Is 6d; prunes 5d lb; mild cheese Is lb.; matured cheese Is Id lb.; stigav 17s 6d for 70 [b bag.; bulk honey and clover honey 9d lb.; rice, sago barley and tapioca all Id lb.; best eggs 2s 6d doz.
Vegetables: Cauliflowers range from 6d to lOd; kumeras Id lb.; cabbages 6d and 8d; marrows 6d each; carrots and turnips 2d bunch; parsnips 2d bunch; beetroot 3d bundle; onions 3d lb.; celery 6d and Is head; potatoes 81b for Is; lettuce 2d and 3d each; pumpkin 2d lb.; spinach 3d bunch; rhubarb Id and 6d bundle; leeks 2d and 3d bundle; sweet turnips 81bs for Is; artichokes 3d lb.; pickling onions 51bs for Is.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 176, 27 July 1928, Page 9
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154CITY RETAIL PRICES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 176, 27 July 1928, Page 9
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