‘Fashions in fruit use'
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. / Thousands of pears being .left to rot on trees in Nelson 'orchards is partly a result of 'changing fashions in the use lof fruit, according to Mr V. Sunde, an Auckland grower of the six-member Apple and Pear Board. “Young wives today simply 'don’t want to bottle,” he said. '“More of them are working. 'They’d rather go out and buy a can of pears. The Bon Chretien pears used fori I bottling generally have, al very' short shelf life.” I Mr Sunde agreed it was a| 'pity when fruit was left to I |rot on trees, but it was “parti 'of the game.” The variety' , I has been overproduced and I I' the dry season had led to the | 'fruit being very small. People did not want to bottle pears; ''the size of golf balls.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33460, 15 February 1974, Page 14
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