CITY RETAIL PRICES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Cash retail prices at present b&ing charged over the counter in Wanganui for various commodities are as follows:
Groceries: Good table butter Is 7d lb; cooked ham Is lid lb; bacon (best cut) Is sd; prunes 31bs for Is; mild cheese Is Id; -matured cheese, Is 4d lb, sugar 14s 3d for 701 b bag; bulk honey and clover honey 8d lb; rice, 4d lb, barley 4d lb; be eggs Is 4d doz.
Vegetables: Cauliflowers range from 6d to lOd; kumeras 3d lb; cabbages 6d and 8d; spring cabbages 3d; carrots and turnips 2d lb; celery 6d and Is head; potatoes 61bs Is; new potatoes 3d lb; lettuce 2d, 3d each; spinach 3d bunch; rhubarb 4d and 6d bundle; Broad beans 4d lb; pickling onions 41bs for Is; tomatoes 8d and lOd lb; green peas 5d lb; French beans Is lb; cucumbers 8d each; marrows Is each.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 9
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153CITY RETAIL PRICES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 9
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