Egg Price Up Is
(.Veto Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON. Nov. 26. The price of eggs will be increased tomorrow by Is a dozen for large and standard grade and 9d a dozen for medium. The Egg Marketing Authority said today that although large surpluses seemed likely next year, present production was showing the expected norma) seasonal decline and in some areas was barely | meeting sales demand. The new district prices for one dozen standard grade eggs are:—
Wellington: loose, 5s 2jd; cartoned. 5s sd. Northland: 4s 11 |d; 5s 3d. Elsewhere in the North Island and also the Nelson and Marlborough districts: 4s Illa: 5s 2d. Westland: 4s lod; 5s lOjd. Elsewhere in the South Island: 4s 8)d; 4s lid. The authority said the increase was a normal seasonal one. The increase brings prices to the level they were at at this time last year, although last year's rise came a week earlier.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 3
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