SHOPPERS’ GUIDE

Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 4

SHOPPERS’ GUIDE

TO-DAY'S CASH PRICES The shoppers’ guide gives ihe lowest prices ruling over the counter in city shops to-day. Eggs arc Is 6d a dozen; butter is Is 7d and Is 9d a lb; sugar, 3d lb, and 16s for 70’s; flour is 5s 8d for 25’s, and 10s 9,cl for 50’s; Christmas hams, Is 4d and Is 5d lb; muscatels, 9d packet. Fish and poultry prices.—Groper, 6d lb; deep sea cod, 4d lb; ling, 4d lb; blue cod, 8d; trevalli, 3 fillets for 6d; soles from 3d each; flounders, 4d each; smoked blue cod, Is lb; smoked barracoota, Is each; smoked ling, 6d lb; smoked terakihi fillets, from 3d; smoked red cod, from 4d; Canadian salmon, Is lb; turkeys, from 10s each; ducklings, from 7s each; goslings, 8s each; boiling fowls, irom 2s each; mutton birds from 9d; salmon trout, 2s lb; kippers, from 2d; Scotch fillet, IS 4d; and ducks from 3s. Meat prices.—Beef (roast), 6d to 9d; corned beef, 7d to 9d; mutton, from 5d to 9d; lamb, from lOd lb; pork, from lOd to Is. Vegetable prices are: _ Melbourne onions, 3d lb; Peninsula notatoos, 4d lb; Auckland, 61b Is; cabbages, 4d and 6d; Spinach, 2d bunch; green peas, 4d lb; lettuce, from 2d each; asparagus, 8d and Is per bunch; rhubarb, 4d lb. Fruit is: Local hothouse tomatoes, la 6d lb; Canadian apples, 8 for Is; Stunner apples, Od lb, 31b for Is sd; cooking, 31b for Is; Naval oranges, 3 for Is, and 3 for Is 3d; Valencia oranges, 6 and 8 for Is; Sunkist lemons, 3d each; grapefruit, 6d each ; strawberries, Is and Is 6d pottle; cherries, Is and Is 6d lb; gooseberries, 4d lb; bananas, S for Is: pineapples, Is and Is 6d each; grapes, 2s Ih; now season’s figs, (id per packet; poaches, 8d lb.