Page 6 Advertisements Column 3

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 113, 10 February 1928, Page 6

Mr. J. Smith (Auckland) is on a visit to Wanganui. Mr. A. Sandiland, of Gisborne, is a visitor to Wanganui. Mr. T. M. Connons, Oamaru, is on a visit to Wanganui. Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure—For Children’s Harking Cough —AavL

A GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFE RETAIL PRICES IN THE CITY The following list of cash retail prices gives a fair indication of what is being charged over the counter in the city. The quotations do not include delivery. Suburban prices are not quoted: — Groceries.—New laid eggs are now 2/2 dozen; good table butter is 1/(5 lb., and pure whey butter is 1/3 lb. Cooked ham is 2/2 and 2/6 lb.; prunes are «d. lb.; salmon is 6d. and 1/8 tin; mild cheese is lid. and 1/Ib : matured cheese is 1/- and 1/4 lb.; N.Z. Stilton cheese is 3/- lb.; condensed milk is (id. and !/• per tin; dates are Bd. packet, and 4d. lb. loose. Sugar is 16/6 for a 7()lb. bag; bulk honey and clover honey sell at l()d. lb.; rice, sago, barley and tapioca are all 3d. lb. Spanish muscatels are 1/6 per packet, and Californian muscatels 1/10 per packet. Turkish figs are 1/- lb. Vegetables.—Scarlet runners are 4d. and 6d. Ib.; marrows are 4d. to Bd. each; peas are 3d. lb., and 61b. for 1/-; cucumbers are 3d. to 1/each; beetroot is 3d. per bundle; lettuce arc td. to 3d. each; carrots, parsnips and turnips are 3d. per bunch; spring onions are 2d. per bunch; onions arc 3d. per lb.; leeks are 3d. per bundle; swedes arc 2d. per lb.; cabbages are 2d. to 6d. each; cauliflowers are 4(1. to 1/- each: butter beans are 4(1. and fid. lb. Meat. —Forequarters of spring lamb are Bd. and 9d. lb.; chops for stewing are 7d. lb.: corned pork is fid. lb.; gravy beef is sd. lb.: sirloin of beef is fid Ib., and ribs of beef are 7d. lb.; legs of mutton are fid. and l()d--lb., and mutton chops sell at 9d. Ib. Tripe, 6d. Ib.: mincemeat sd. lb.; corned beef 7d. and Bd. per Ib.; beef sausages are 6d. Ib., and pork sausages Bd. and l()d. Ib. Fish. —Hound fish is 6d. and 7d. lb.; flat fish is lOd. Ib., and smoked fish l()d. to l/l Ib. Fruit.—Nectarines are I/- Ib. (eating), and l()d. lb. (cooking); Cape gooseberries are !/• Ib.; greengages arc Bd. and lOd. lb.; plums are 4d. to fid. lb. (eating), and 4d. Ib. (cooking): apricots are sd. and fid. Ib. (cooking), and Bd. and 1/- Ib. (eating); tomatoes are 4d., fid., 1/- lb.; peaches Bd. to 1/- Ib. (eating), and sd. and (id. Ib. (cooking): cherries are 1/6 to 2/lb.; pineapples are 1/6 to 2/6 each; grape fruit are fid. and Bd. each; eating apples arc 6d. and Bd. Ib.; dessert pears are 4d., fid., and Bd. Ib.; lemons are 1/6 to 3/- doz.; oranges are 3/- and 4/- doz.; raspberries are 2/6 per box; passion fruit are 2/- doz. N.Z. grapes are 1/8 to 3/- lb.; watermelons fid. lb.