CITY RETAIL PRICES

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 88, 8 January 1935, Page 6

CITY RETAIL PRICES

What to Pay for Foodstuffs

In Wellington retail shops in the last few days the prices of many of the staple varieties of vegetables have been reduced. Spring cabbages are usually a penny dearer at 3d. to 4d. each. Broad beans and gooseberries are out of, season. Prices of groceries remain the same. Present prices are. as follow: — Provisions. ,

Eggs—Hid- to 1/2 dozen. , Butter—First grade, 10ld.; whey, 810. Bacon. —Price cut rashers, 7d. to 1/4 lb Cheese.—Mild, 63d. lb.';' matured, 1/lb. Honey.—Carton, 7-Jd. lb. Flour —3/5 251 b. bag. Sugar—ls/6 701 b. bag: 3d. lb. T ea —2/- to 2/6 lb.: China tea, 3/- lb. Bread —5Jd.

Apples, 3d. to 4d. 1 lb»;. cooking,. 3d. lb; pears, 3d. to 4d. lb., cooking 3d. t0,4d.; grapefruit, Californian, sd. to bd. each; oranges, Jamaica, 2/- to 3/6 doz/; pineapples,' lOd. to 2/- each; bananas, 8 to 12 1/-; lemons, New Zealand, 6 to 16 1/- Californian, 2d. to 3d. each; grapes, Californian, lOd. to 1/3 lb.; passion fruit, 1/6 to 2/- a dozen; bronze plums, 3d. and 4d. lb.; •cherry plums, 3d. and 4d. lb.; cherries, TOd. to 1/6 lb.; strawberries, lOd. to 2/b 'punnet; pomegranates, 3d. to sd. each; peaches; 6d and Bd. Ib.; cooking, 3d. and 4d. lb.; apricots, 6d. lb.; plums, 6d. ib.; red cut-rants,: Bd. lb. Vegetables.

Spring cabbage, 3d. to 4d. each; cauliflowers, 3d. to 10d. each; lettuces, Id. to 4d each; carrots, 2d. bunch; parsnips, 3d’.' bunch; turnips, 2d. bunch; onions, 4d. and sd. lb.; beetroot, 3d. t> unc “; swede turnips, Id. lb.; garlic, 6d. lb., rhubarb, 3d. to 6d. bunch; potatoes, Bto 121 b. l/-’> silver beet, 2d. to 3d. bunch, green peas, 3d. to 4d. lb.; French beans, 4d to 6d. lb.; hothouse, Bd. to 1/- lb., hothouse tomatoes, 6d. to 1/- lb.; cucumbers, Id. to 3d. each; hothouse, 3d. to 7d. each; marrows, 4d. to 7d. each.

Beef.—Rump steak, lid. lb.; undercut steak, 1/1 lb.; beef steak, 7d. lb.; sirloin, 9d lb.; ribs, 7d. lb.; topside, 6d. lb., rolled 7ci lb.; corned, 6d. and 81b. lb., mince, sd. lb.; tripe, 7d lb.; saugages, 6d. lb.; sausage meat, sd. lb. Pork.— Legs, &1. and 9d. lb.; loin. W lb.; chops, lOd. lb.; sausages, id. lb Mutton.— Legs, 7d. and Bd. lb. ? forequarters, 4d. and 6d.; shoulders, 6d. and 7d. lb.; loin, 6<l. and 7d. lb.: loin chops 9d. lb.; leg and rib chops, 8(1. lb. _ Lamb.— Legs, 1/- lb.; loins, lOd, b., ,b ' Hsh.

Smoked cod, Bd. lb.; smoked fillet, bd. lb.; smoked ling, 6d. lb.; terakihi, fresh, 4d. lb.; cod, 6d. lb.: fillet, 1/- lb.; butterfish, 6d..1b.; hapuka, sd. lb.; flounders and soles, Bd. lb. '