HOUSEWIVES’ GUIDE A GENERAL decrease of 2d from last week is shown in to-day’s egg prices. Large-sized hen eggs in the markets make 1s 3d to 1s 4d a dozen; intermediate, 1s 2d to 1s 3d; and duck eggs, 1s 2d to 1s 3d. There are plentiful supplies. In the shops, prices are around 3d a dozen dearer. Farmers’ butter is in short supply in the city marts and sells at Is 3d to 1s 5d a lb. Finest factory butter for cash in the shops sells at 1s 10d a lb; second grade, 1s 9d a lb. There are short supplies of farmers’ butter, and the demand is keen. A neck and breast of mutton in the shops for cash over the counter costs 6d a lb: leg and loin chops, 11d a lb: hind-quarter, 9d a lb; gravy beef. 4d a lb: corned round. 7d a lb; leg of pork. 10d a lb. Cucumbers’in the marts sell at 5s to 7s 6d a dozen: vegetable marrows, 3s to 5s a dozen; cabbage, 2s to 7s a dozen; cauliflower, 3d to 1s 3d each; celery. 1s to 5s 6d a bundle: rhubarb. 3s 6d to 5s a dozen bundles: spinach. 9d to 1s a dozen bundles: pumpkins'. 6d to 1s 6d each; spring cnions. 3d to 5d a bundle: radish. 6d a dozen bundles: carrots, narsnips. beet and t ! #nios, Pd to 1«= 6d a dn Z en bundles: leeks, 4d to 7d a bundle. The above-mentioned Kit-bag Is Incomplete without a packet %of “Xo Rubbing Laundry Help.” the scientific clothes-washer 2 Tour meals are more thoroughly enjoyed when MAZAWATTEE tea graces the table. Save the white ticket in each packet and get a canister of tea FREE.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 417, 27 July 1928, Page 12
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