CITY RETAIL PRICES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Cash retail prices at present beipg charged over the counter ih Wanganui for various commodities are as follows: Groceries: Good table butter Is 9d lb; cooked ham, Is lid lb; bacon (best cut) Is fcd; prunes Slbs for Is; mild cheese Is; matured cheese, Is 4d lb.; sugar, 16s 6d for 701 b bag; bulk honey and clover honey 8d lb; rice, sago, barley and tapioca all 3d lb; best eggs 1/5 doz.
Vegetables: Cauliflowers range from 6d to lOd; kumeras 3d lb; cabbages 6d and 8d; spring cabbages 3d and 4d marrows 6d each; carrots and tumips 2d bunch; beetroot 3d bundle; onions 3d lb; celery 6d and Is head; potatoes 61bs 1/; new potatoes 5d lb; lettuce 2d, 3d each; pumpkin 2d lb; spinach 3d bunch; rhubarb 4d and 6d bundle; sweet turnips Slbs for is; artichokes 3d lb; pickling onions 41bs for Is; tomatoes 8d and lOd lb; radishes 2s doz. bundles; green peas 1/- lb.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 242, 12 October 1928, Page 9
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165CITY RETAIL PRICES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 242, 12 October 1928, Page 9
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