CITY RETAIL PRICES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Cash retail prices at present being charged over the counter in Wanganui for various commodities are as follows: Groceries: Good tabla butter Is 7d lb; cooked ham Is lid lb; bacon (be&t cut) Is sd; prunes 31bs for Is; mild cheese Is Id; natured 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 is 4d doz.
Vegetables: Cauliflowers range from 6d to lOd; kumeras 3d lb; cabbages 6d and 8d; spring cabbages 6d and 8d; spring cabbages 3d; carrots and turnips 2d 5d lb; celery 6d and lsheaft; potatoes 61bs Is; new potatoes 4d lb; lettuce 2d, 3d each; pumpkin 2d lb; spinach 3d bunch; rhubarb 4d and 6d bundle; sweet turnips 81bs for Is; artichokes 3d lb; pickling onions 41bs for Is; tomatoes 8d and lOd lb; radishes 2s doz. bundles; green peas 8d lb.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 9
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161CITY RETAIL PRICES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 9
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