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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13520, 15 February 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

Melbourne papers are full of stones about the terrible heat the city lias been that iu those days no one would care to experiencing. One would have thought touch meat, but according to the " Avgiift" the butchers were about Lhe busiest peo.ple in the city, for the demand for corned beef and cutlet*-, instead of fresh joints, was quite extraordinary. Xo other meat was asked for, and so all the available pieces of beef were turned into corned rounds. Even isirloins were boned and skewered into shape and plunged into tile pickle for an hour or two, and then pumped with brine. " ' Beef corned while the customer waits' wa.s the motto of our shop," naid one suburban tradesman. "• I can't, say the- meat was tender, for in many casus it. was killed at daybreak, and.corned and cooked and all before midday ; still we could do nothing cli;t\ fur. with a short supply of. ice, we dare not risk the cooling-room." Greengrocers say that they could easily have sold three or four times as many tomatoes at high prices. Usually at this time of year excellent tomatoes can be had for a penny or twopence a pound, but during the worst weather eight pence was charged for very indifferent sample*, and tinally there* was not. one to be had at any price. Similar high rates ruled for peaches, and really good ones wore sold at 3d and Id apiece. However, there was plenty of cheaper though very inferior, ones obtainable