THE KIT BAG
HOUSEWIVES’ GUIDE
In the City Auction marts cauliflowers are bringing 3d to 1s 3d each; cabbages, 1s 6d to 5s a dozen. Good dessert apples or pears can be bought from 7s to 8s a case; choice varieties bring higher prices and inferior grade cookers bring from about 4s 6d upward. Hen eggs in the mart bring 3s 5d to 3s 6d a dozen; duck eggs, 2s 11d to 3s a dozen; good farmers' butter, 1s to 1s 2d. In the fish shops, kippered fillets are retailed at 1s a lb.; smoked blue cod, 1s 9d a lb.; rabbits, 10d each, or 1s 6d a pair; fresh schnapper and mullet, 6d a lb. Cash over the counter will get a sirloin of beef at 8d a lb.; minced beef, 4d a lb.; dripping, 6d a lb.; fillets of veal, 10d a lb. Clever Mary Is- in big demand and is selling at the usual price at all grocers. 1. Remuera Ladies are emphatic in their praise of NO RUBBING LAUNDRY HELP, the abolition of washboard slavery—ls per pkt. at all stores. MAZAWATTEE TEA has a delicious flavour. Save the white ticket in each packet and obtain a canister of tea FREE. 4L
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 May 1927, Page 9
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205THE KIT BAG Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 May 1927, Page 9
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