TE/f fd&yiA THE HOUSEWIFE’S GUIDE A N increase of a penny all round was registered in egg prices to-day on the City Markets. There are moderate supplies. Hen eggs are bringing 1s 1d to 1s 3d a dozen; intermediate size hen eggs, 1s a dozen; and duck eggs, 1s to Is 1d a dozen. Moderate supplies of farmers’ butter are held. To-day’s price was 1s 2d to 1s 3d a lb, with a good demand. In the shops, first quality factory butter is bringing 1s 8d a lb, and second grade 1s 7d. The price across the counter in the shops for leg and loin of spring lamb is 1s 6d a lb. Hindqu.nrter is bringing 1s 4d; forequarter, 1s 2d; forequarter of old lamb, 76; leg of mutton, 9d; neck and breast, 6d; leg and loin chops, 11d; hindquarters, 9d; forequarters, 76; shoulders, 7X6 ; sirloin, 10d; rump steak, 1s 2d; beef steak and corned round, 8d; siret and sausages, 6d; tripe and dripping, 7d; and prime rib, 7d. On the market benches, green peas are realising 3s to 4s 6d a bag; French beans. 5d to 7d a lb; lettuces, 2s to 5s a case; new potatoes, 5s to 7s a bag; cucumbers, 1s 6d to 6s a dozen; vegetable marrows, 2s to 6s a dozen; pumpkins, 1s to 3s each; asparagus, 5d to 9d a bundle; leeks, 3d to 4d a bundle; radish, 3d to 6d a dozen bundles; spinach, 6d to 9d a dozen bunches; cabbages. 1s to 3s a dozen; cauliflowers, 1s to 5s a dozen; and carrots, beet, parsnips, and turnips. 8d to 1s 2d a dozen bundles. Th® above-mentioned Kit-bag: Incomplete without a packet of “Xo Rubbing Laundry Help.’* the scientific clothes-washer * Delicious MAZAW AT TEE Tea, is now obtainable in attractive tins at no extra cost. Save the white ticket in each tin and get a canister of tea FREE.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 12
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