BAD EGGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1943, Page 4

BAD EGGS

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —When shopping on Friday I entered a grocer's shop where I am not known in a search for eggs, as I have a small family. Much to my surprise, when buying other goods, I was asked if I wanted eggs, and I was delighted to receive a half-dozen without even having to beg for them. On reaching home I broke one and it was bad —beyond reformation! Another was black; another was a pea-green, and two others were just plain bad without discoloration. The only survivor was on the stale side. So for my Is 3d- I had the use of only one egg. This is a bit too much and it is about time the whole question of eggs, fresh and otherwise, was gone into by the authorities. Wellington mothers are penalised enough now with the high cost of living without having to buy bad eggs for the cost of good ones.—l am, etc., FOUL BLOW.

FISH AND EGGS

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Having purchased a sole for 2s 3d I was astonished when the owner of the shop told me they were freighted up from Port Chalmers. Knowing the curtailed shipping, one could more or less guess the age of the sole, indeed it was so dry and tasteless South Africa might have been its playing area. Having recently returned from Christchurch where fish looks and tastes as it should, and where there is a glorious abundance of eggs, one wonders why Wellington fishermen cannot supply us with fish,-and use the space now occupied by Port Chalmers fish to bring fresh eggs from Canterbury. I brought up quite a few, and after 10 days they are as fresh as anything bought locally. I often think of part of Noel Coward's farewell speech when he said similar words to these, "If you don't like the crowd who run things, don't just whine, show a bit of spirit and push them out." A further item of interest is that black currants could not fetch 4d a lb down Christchurch way, and the day I got back they were priced at 2s a lb here. —I am, etc., FRESH FISH AND EGGS.