ORANGE AND BANANA SUPPLIES
IMPORTER FORECASTS GOOD STOCKS
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 11. The supply of oranges and bananas for the New Zealand market appears to be well assured, according to Mr C. R. Walker, manager of Fruit Distributors, Ltd. He foresees a high level of importation of oranges at reasonable prices for the next five years. He told a conference in Wellington of the New Zealand Fruit and Produce Merchants’ and Auctioneers’ Association that only for two months of the year—April and May—would oranges not be available from sterling sources. Efforts to obtain permission from dollar countries for those had failed, he said.
South African and Australian navel oranges would be plentiful this month and for some time ahead, he said. Mr Walker said the banana supply was keeping up well, and New Zealand could look forward to very good supplies. The Matua was due at Lyttelton on Tuesday with 25,000 cases of Samoan bananas.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27064, 12 June 1953, Page 8
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