DOCTORED EGGS.
' -There.is at, present a set of noncarrying " on business!, in Sydney. a"amst .whom .'. the >; public should be; warned (says the..''.Daily . " ; Telegraph"),. These people, frequent the'wholesale dairy produce stores in Sussex Street,, and buy.the bad eggs, These eggs are 'absp- ; ' " lutcly; rottenand are usually s destroyed by agents. T.Bub the eg<* fiend purchases a few.,, s.' cases fon almost nothing, and 1 li.v. washing in! ~ acids romoves. all stains, and .'makes tha(eggs ;,i. ' lock,fresh and row. Those "sick" eggs,, as ' they are' trained -m.-.tKe.' 'street, I ', are hawked ~. about, the , suburbsj and : the unsuspecting'-' \ liousoivifo eagerly purchases them at 'a prico considerably lower.'than . that' at which the ■ legitimate traders can supply good. eggs. Tho •"fiend"'- would probably receive : Is., 3d. per dozen. for eggs which-' cost him ..less than . a , penny. The . reputable houses'. in ti: Sussex... Street always 'destroy, their "sick"- eggs, but ; somehow supplies are . obtained. , .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 April 1908, Page 2
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149DOCTORED EGGS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 April 1908, Page 2
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