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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17433, 19 April 1922, Page 8

The custom of presenting Easter eggs, which has long been in vogue in many of the Continental countries and in the United States of America, seems to be growing in popularity in Auckland, and merchants who handle these gifts state that they haive sold a greatly increased number in the past few weeks (says Saturday's Auckland "Herald"). In the older countries the Easter eggs are either real or artificial and are ornamented by dyeing, painting, or otherwise, and used at Easter as decorations or gifts. In these countries Easter eggs, or Pasch eggs, are regarded as symbolical jrf creation, or the re-crea-tion of spring. Christians adopted .the custom to symbolise the Resurrection and coloured the eggs red in allusion to the blood of their redemption. Prior to the war Easter confectionery eggs w*»re imported from England, but the subsequent cost of transit and uncertainty of supplies interfered with local consignments As the eggs are now being made locally the custom would seem to be reviving.

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