DEAR BANANAS.
RETAILERS LOSING MONEY.
EVEN AT HIGH PRICES.
Retail fruit dealers who waited on the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle this morning with regard to the committee of inquiry into the selling price of fruit- in Sew Zealand statedl:here was no profit in.the imported fruit, all profit had to be made out of the local article. One of the deputation told the Minister that he had been losing money on bananas for the past two years. Another retailer capped this by saying that for the past three years he had been selling them at a loss. When the public saw bananas up to, say, sixpence a pound, they thought the retailers were making a fine thing out oi the trade, but. such was not the fact.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 17 June 1930, Page 9
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128DEAR BANANAS. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 17 June 1930, Page 9
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