NEW ZEALAND APPLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 161, 9 July 1926, Page 13

NEW ZEALAND APPLES.

(To the Editor.) Sir.—ln the past inferior South American frozen meat often was passe.l to the English consumers as '"Prime Canterbury," and foreign butter of inferior grade was sold as "New Zealand's Best." Now apparently our apples are to be depreciated through faulty marketing arrangements, which permits poor conditioned fruit to be labelled for tho retail trade at Home as "New Zealand Apple?." A letter in a recent issue of the "Daily Graphic," London, emphasizes this point. A correspondent signing himself "H." writes: —"It is to be hoped that the Food Council will not omit to inquire into the greengrocery trade. I have just been sold some absolutely tasteless, absolutely juiceless, and inordinately pithy New Zealand applos (alleged to be such, at all events) at 8d a pound —that is to say, at only a penny less per pound than the controlled price during the war, when ocean freights must have been considerably higher than they are now, and supplies considerably less." —I am, etc., G.H.