Beef Up, Chicken Down

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30895, 30 October 1965, Page 19

Beef Up, Chicken Down

[from

DON GRADY,

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1 the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce delegation to the Sydney Trade Fair.]

Members of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce delegation to the Sydney Trade Fair are finding it cheaper to eat chicken than steak. The big drought has sent steak and mutton prices soaring. Scores of chicken-roasting! shops dot Sydney and its | suburbs. On Thursday a King's Cross, butcher was selling fillet: steak for 16s a pound. An i hour later I walked into a food store and found that! young broiling chicken was: selling at 6s 2d a pound. Ini King's Cross broiling chicken’ vas being sold for 4s 9d a! pound. In a single week, the people: of New South Wales are eat-1 ing up to 400,000 birds. One; American-designed processing j plant at Liverpool, just outBide Sydney, is capable of processing 120,000 birds a week. * * * Around the Banks Penin-

sula rocks, at the Sumner Estuary, at Kaikoura, or at Akaroa Harbour it is easy to get shellfish for fishing bait, and other bait is plentiful. But in Sydney, one has to pay big money for fish bait. A highly-organised, competitive £250,000 fishing-bait industry in Sydney is getting bigger every year and this summer it expects to do record business. One Sydney company is processing and distributing about 200,000 packets of frozen bait a year. It flies frozen fish bait all over Australia and also to Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Most frozen baits sei! for about 3s 9d a pound. Green frozen prawn bait sells from 4s to £1 a pound depending on supplies. # Haircuts in this cosmopolitan city of 2.500,000 persons are as varied as the many nations the population is drawn from. In a 15 minute walk from the Hampton Court Hotel, King’s Cross, where the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce delegation is staying, one can see males sporting crew cuts, side levers, Boston cuts, and flat-tops.

Some have ripple cuts (with waves folded in) others crew cuts (cropped short evenly), flat-tops (cropped short with a flat-top like the deck of an aircraft carrier) or layer cuts (cut short in layers so that none of the hair sticks up). Also frequently seen are the American college or collegiate cut (a closely cropped style which can be brushed down) and the Boston cut (shaved square at the back). Members of the Canterbury chamber's delegation have found haircuts in Sydney expensive. Some barbers charge 5s but others in the King’s Cross area seem to charge whatever they think your pocket is good for. Youths are paying 7s 6d a time for fancy cuts. » # *

The latest fad in Sydney is keeping pet snakes. A Sydney practical joker who went to a department store to buy one to “scare” an Auckland businessman visiting the Sydney Trade Fair found that he could not get the kind he wanted. The story told by the salesman was that the shop would have to drop out of the snake trade because it could not get enough frogs and birds to feed its snakes. The snakes are being snapped up at 15s a foot.