HOUSEWIFE'S GUIDE In the City Markets first quality Hen eggs are selling at 3s a dozen for special grade, with A grade 2s 11d and B, 2s 6d. Duck eggs are: Special, 2s 10d; A, 2s 9d; and B, 2s 6d. Farmers' butter is again 1s to 1s 2d, with factory butter at from 1s 2d to 1s 6d in the shops. Over the shop counters leg of pork sells at 1s 1d; loin, 1s; foreloin with blade, 10d; pork chops, 1s; corned hand, 9d; corned belly, lid; pork sausages, 8d; leg of mutton, 9d; shoulder, 7d; neck and breast, 6d; forequarters, 6d; hindquarters, 9d; loin, 9d; leg and loin chops, 10d; trimmed cutlets, 1s 1d; sirloin of beef, rump steak, 1s 1d; rolled chuck rib, prime rib, topside and flank, 7d; corned round, 7d; wing rib, 82,d; steak, 9d; suet and sausages, 6d. Whole schnapper sells at 6d a lb; terakihi, 4d; mullet, 6d; hapuka steaks, 10d to 1s; terakihi, fresh fillets, 7»d; schnapper, 10d; lemon fish, 6d. In the city fruit shops apples sell as follow:—Dessert, Delicious, Jonathans and Sturmers, 3d to 4d a lb; cookers, 4 to slb for 1s; pears, dessert Winter Cole, 4d a lb; Keiffers, 3d a lb; cookers, 4 and 5 lb for 1s; passion fruit, 6d to 10d a dozen; grapes, Australian white, Sd to 10d a lb; Australian purple Cornichon, 1s a lb, 1s 4d a packet; Gros Colman hothouse, 2s, 2s 6d and 3s a lb: Cape gooseberries, 6d and 7d a lb; tree tomatoes, 6d to 8d a lb; figs, 6d to 8d a dozen; tomatoes, local hbthouse, 10d to 1s a lb: outdoor, 5d to 6d a lb; bananas, 5d a lb, 3!b for 1s; Sunkist oranges, 3s 6d tp 4s 6d a dozen; Island oranges, 1s 6d, 2s and 2s 6d a dozen; Australian Valencia oranges, 1s 6d to 2s a dozen; Fiji mandarines, 1s to 2s a dozen; lemons, local, 1s 6d to 2s a dozen; lemons, Sunkist, 2s 6d a dozen; grape fruit, Sunkist, 6d each; persimmons, 4d to 6d each; pines, 1s 6d to 2s each. Potatoes sell at 10 to 121 b for 1s; swedes, 1d to lAd a lb; onions, 1d a lb; kumeras, 4lb for. 6d; pumpkins, 1d to 2d a lb; peas, 8d a lb; beans, 6d to 10d a lb; cucumbers, 8d to 1s each; celery, 2d to 8d a stick; lettuce, 2d to 3d each; cauliflower, 6d to 1s each; cabbage, 3d to 6d each; carrot, parsnip, radish, turnip, beetroot, leek, IJd a bunch; marrows. 3d to 8d each: rhubarb, 6cl a bundle. Drink MAZAWATTEE Delicious Tea. Read, the coupon in every packet, 2*Tew articles FREE,—2, - . ~
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 13
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