Around Sydney Shops

THERE is not much resemblance be tween the old pressure-cookers, which most recruiters, miners and patrol-officers carried around New Guinea in the pre-war era, and the streamlined beauties which have become popular in Australia in the last 12 months. But they do relatively the same job.

The old recruiter-miner type were valued mostly because they could make even a recalcitrant New Guinea pigeon —dr any other “balus” —tender.

The 1948 version probably can do that too, but their greatest service should be to households in Islands townships where electric power is available but expensive.

A pressure-cooker cuts cooking time in half; and, as well, several different kinds of food can be cooked in the one sauce pan, at the same time, but the flavours do not mingle.

Australian-made cookers cost round about 95 -: imported British cookers £5/15/-. There appears little difference in efficiency.

The Australian-made jobs almost all have handles like conventional saucepans.

The imported ones have lugs, which look very neat. But when it comes to hand ling a hot saucepan a good, long handle is a blessing.

Spares, such as rubber pressure-rings, pressure indicators, wire baskets, are also available.

Suggestions . . .

A FEW of the requirements of other readers, which we have met over the last month or so, may prove of general interest: CARDS, Small Printing Jobs: Plain Christmas cards to fit into ordinary envelope, printed to client’s requirements.

Cost: £1 per 100. The firm which did the job also specialises in printed wed ding, birthday, lodge and dance invita tions. They can usually turn out an order in about three weeks —which, on present standards, is fast.

BICYCLE TYRES and TUBES: Cost of these —7/6 and 4/7 respectively.