PRICE OF APPLES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13334, 22 December 1943, Page 2

PRICE OF APPLES

Sir—A statement you on December 11, by Mr Tier., |W information relating to the P rM 1 apples, which I read with Mr Thorn is not very 1««. that he speaks of pounds an cases of apples, without hW converting, or giving a i£ ur able one measure to be expressed the other. v , r . He does tell us that w iety in question there are three apples to the I*. >« * i» to the case, proximations, a mean g * per case of just over

tained. . (jdJ With this figure an dtf( e, emerging from the cor the following general

can be made * The grower, wr dep c, packed fruit to the ce Marke & gets 5/6 per case. Th |s u;» Department’s wholesa P gin is & - -•“ a 8/- per case. T - price is 6id per ,' g bu ying 23/10 per case, an 10 /l P 13/6, thus his pay s ** case, out of which * carriage, while the out by the growei 0 f the The comparative wards for the respe o i eS aler • thus: Grower 0 ’ w retailer 10/ 4 - . forS ive4 j, One may P erhap severs 1 W wondering ' v ‘ ,et '' easor l»s * , sticks used ■» ’ J ions services, W ,l* certified standar „ accordance wit» sc |cni' ic ~ and even U keting itself, ‘ „ ot any « al a ' , nl |sts ell(! ’ other than the sclent it —I am, etc., y^Rfl 5 “STANDA rD