THE PRICE OF EGGS.
The price of eggs .>vas..a. minently under diecussrion at "the conference of the'Ne-.v Zealand Poultrymen's Association at Auckland on Wednesday, and the consensus cf opinion (gays the Star) was 'that prices were infinitely better than those ruling a few years back. " A Southern agent stated that he had fr contract to supply many hundred dozens of eggs at lid a dozen, where, as .-.four or five yeans ago .he could not get more than 64 or 7d."-' He contended that there was a steady upward tendency en the price as' time went on. An elderly delegate agreed with tfcfe contention. He knew- of instances feme years back where sellers had to be content with aflfttte f»s 3|d a. dozen. Oh the other hand he remembered how, half a eenturv afio, egriss had soared in Auckland as rn a dmon - The P'^^d look that flitted across the speaker's countenance as he made the latter announce™?:* indicated that the recollection of s „ch an inflated pr : ce "~ as f yevy pleasant one
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 April 1913, Page 4
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174THE PRICE OF EGGS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 April 1913, Page 4
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