THE BAG HOUSEWIVES’ GUIDE Prices in the field and produce section at the City Marts continue to favour the average housewife. Cauliflowers are worth 2d to 7d each; cabbages, Is to 3s 6d a dozen; leeks, 3d to 4d a bundle; carrots, parsnips, beet, and turnips, 6d to Is a dozen bundles; radishes, 6d to 9d a dozen bundles; celery, Is 6d to 4s 6d a bundle. Lemons sell up to 13s a case: oranges bring to 21s for the best Island. Best cooking pears and apples make to 10s 6d. Fish is in firm demand in the city shops, but prices remain practically unaltered. Hapuka brings Is a lb; mullet, 6d; terekehi, sd; schnapper fillets, 3d and 4d each, according to size. Eggs continue to cheapen in the marts, and hen eggs to-day made from Is 7£d to Is Btd a dozen: duck eggs made from Is 7d to Is 7Jd a dozen. Farmers’ butter in the marts makes Is 2Ad to Is 31d a lb. Clever Mary is in big demand and Is selling at the usual price at all grocers. 1. The above-mentioned Kit-bag is incomplete without a Is packet of “No Rubbing Laundry Help.’’ the scientific clothes-washer. MAZAWATTEE TEA has a delicious flavour. Save the white ticket *n each packet and obtain a canister of tea FREE.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 11
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221Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 11
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