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A GUIDE TO THE HOUSEWIFE $ LIST OF CITY PRICES / . 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 arc not quoted:— Groceries. —New laid eggs arc 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 Od. lb.; salmon is 6d. and 1/8 tin; mild cheese is lid. and 1/- lb.; matured cheese is 1/- andJ/4 lb.; N.Z. Stilton cheese is 3/- lb.; condensed milk is 6d. and 1/- per tin; dates are Bd. packet, and 4d. Ib. loose. Sugar is 16/6 for a 701 b. bag; bulk honey and clover honey sell at lod. lb.; rice, sago, barley and tapioca arc all 3d. lb. Spanish muscatcis are 1/6 per packet, and Californian muscatels are 1/10 per packet. Turkish figs are 1/- Ib. , Fruit.—Rockmelons 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 are 3d. to 6d. lb.; blackberries are 6d Ib.; peaches are Cd. to 1/- lb.; bananas are priced at from 8 for 1/- to 18 for !/•; apricots are 6d. to lOd. lb.; plums are 3d. to Bd. lb.; tomatoes are 4d. and 6d. lb.; eating apples are 4d. and 6d. Ib.; lemons arc 3d. each, and oranges 3/- and 4/- doz. Vegetables.—Cauliflowers are now Od. to 1/- each; cabbages are 4d. to 6d. each; marrows are 3d. and 4d. each; cucumbers are 2d. to 4d- 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 Ib.; swedes are 2d. per Ib.; green peas are 3d. lb.; French beans and butter beans arc 3d. lb. Fish.—Round fish is 6d. and 7d. Ib.; flat fish is lOd. lb., and smoked fish lOd. to 1/1 lb. Meat.—Forequarters of lamb are od. Ib.: chops for stewing are 7d. lb.; corned pork is Od. lb.; gravy beef is sd. lb.; sirloin of beef is Od. lb., and ribs of beef are 7d. Ib.; legs of mutton are Od. and tOd. lb., and mutton chops sell at Od. lb. Tripe, 6d. lb.; mincemeat sd. Ib.; corned beef 7d. and 8d per lb.; beef sausages are Gd. lb., and pork sausages Bd. and lod. lb.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19280229.2.24.2

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
413

Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 5

Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 5

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