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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 477, 5 October 1928, Page 12

HOUSEWIVES’ GUIDE A DROP of a halfpenny has taken place in duck eggs on the City Markets. They are in plentiful supply, but the inquiry is poor. Hen eggs are plentiful, and the demand is better. Prices are: Hen, 1s 2d to 1s 3d a dozen; intermediate, 1s 1d to 1s 2d; and duck, 1s to 1s Id. Moderate supplies of farmer©’ butter are held. It brings 1© 2d to 1s 5d a lb. First-grade factory butter in the shops sells for cash at 1s 9d a lb; second grade, 1s 8d a lb. In the sho--- for cash, sirloin fetches 10d a lb; prime ribs, 7d a lb; corned round, 8d a lb; beefsteak, 7d a lb; rump steak, 1s 2d a gravy beef, 6d a lb; and whole lofns, a lb. On the market benches, cabbages bring 1s 6d to 3s 6d a dozen; cauliflower, 3d to 1s each; new potatoes, to 4d a lb; beans, 1s to 1® 6d a lb; green peas, 8d and 9d a lb; lettuce, 1s to 3s 6d a case; cucumbers, 4s to 7s 6d a dozen; vegetable marrows, 4s to 6s a dozen; pumpkins, 3s to 3s 6d each; spring onions, 2d to 6d a bundle; radieh, 6d a dozen bundles; leeks, 4d to 6d a bundle; asparagus, 1s to 1s 4d a bundle; rhubarb, 2s 6d to 4s a dozen; celery (first quality), 3s to 5s 6d a bundle; spinach, 1s to 1s 6d a dozen bundles; and carrots, beet, turnips and parsnips, 9d to Is 6d a dozen bundles. The above-mentioned Kit-bag Is Incomplete without a packet of "No Rubbing Laundry Help/* the scientific clothes-washer. 9 More cups of more delicious tea and assured with MAZAWATTEE. Save the white ticket in each packet and get a canister of tea FREE.