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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 127, 27 February 1928, Page 6

A GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFE PREVAILING 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 2/- doz.; pullets’ eggs are still 1/6 doz: good table butter is 1/6 lb., and pure whey butter 1/4 lb. Cooked ham is 2/2 and 2/6 lb.; prunes are 6d. lb.; salmon is 6d. and 1/8 tin; mild cheese is lid. and 1/- lb.; matured cheese is 1/- and 1/4 lb.; N.Z. Stilton cheese is 3/- lb.; condensed milk is Gd. and 1/- per tin; dates are Bd. packet, and 4d. lb. loose. Sugar is 16/6 for a 7011). bag; bulk honey and clover honey sell at lOd. lb.; rice. sago, barley and tapioca are all 3d. lb. Spanish muscatels are 1/6 per packet, and Californian muscatels are 1/10 per packet, Turkish figs are 1/- lb. Fruit,—Rockmclons are 1/6 to 2/6 each; watermelons are 6d. lb. Grapes are 1/6 to 3/- lb.: grape fruit are 6d. and Bd. each; pears arc 3d. to Gd. lb.; blackberries are Gd- lb.; peaches arc 6d. to 1/- lb.; bananas are priced at from 8 for 1/- to 18 for 1/-; apricots are (id. to lOd. lb.: plums arc 3d. to Bd. lb.; tomatoes are 4d. and 6d. lb.; eating apples are 4d. and 6d. 1!>.; lemons are 3d. each, and oranges 3/- and 4/- doz. Vegetables.—Cauliflowers are now 9d. to 1/- each; cabbages are Id. to (Id. each: marrows are 3d. and 4d. each; cucumbers are 2d. to Id. each; pumpkin is 2d. lb.; beetroot is 3d. per bundle; carrots, parsnips and turnips are 3d. per bunch; spring onions are 2d- per bunch; onions are 3d. per lb.; swedes are 2d. per lb-; green peas are 3d- lb.; French beans and butter beans are 3d. lb. Fish.—Round llsli is (id. and 7d. lb.; flat fish is lOd. lb., and smoked fish lOd. to 1/1 lb. Meat.—Forequarters of lamb are 9d. lb.: chops for stewing are 7d. lb.; corned pork is lid. lb.; gravy beef is sd. lb.; sirloin of beef is 9d. lb., and ribs of beef are 7d. Ib.; legs of mutton are lid. and lOd. Ib., and mutton chops sell at lid. Ib. Tripe, Gd. Ib.; mincemeat 3d. lb.; corned beef 7d. and Bd. per lb.; beef sausages are 6d. lb., and pork sausages Bd. aud lOd. lb.