Green Grocer

Is there any such thing today? That was what Dad was - his occupation - a green grocer. Firstly in High Street then Union Street. Holidays saw us down at Webster Brothers - watching the auctioneer in action.. Mr Taylor - All the buyers from around the province getting their stock - vegetables, fruit ..and loading up their trucks to take the wares home.

Those were the days where you had to wash your own carrots - ripen the green bananas in the banana room -

We even had tins of mutton birds - Mum used to hold her nose as the smell was so strong.

And the internet says:

Call it what you will, it is one of Maoridom's most favoured foods.

Muttonbirders say that on the 25th November, all adult females with only a very few exceptions lay an egg. Only one egg is laid by each bird and both the male and female incubate it. A few eggs are laid on the 26th November and an even smaller number are laid on the 27th November, but after the 27th egg laying ceases entirely.

The eggs laid on the 25th November are said to hatch on Christmas Day and those laid on the 26th and 27th November are hatched on the 26th and 27th December.