THIS YEAR'S EARLY PEACHES.
A HAWKE'S BAY SHORTAGE. The Wellington market is now feeling tho • ell'eei of tho disastrous frost ivjiioh struck Hawko's Day orchards last October.' Tho .Dominion's first crop of peaches is now about done. The new crop will not be ready for a week or so yet. Prices have advanced and will remain high' until' tho now lots are forward. On tho . market yesterday 'Nelson peaches brought from-OS. -to 7s. per half .case; small and inferior 3s. to 4s. 6d.- . -'
Hawko's Bay, usually a big supplier, is'sending vbry.fow peaches to \>ellimran now in consequence .of the October frost. 'Generally,. Hawke's Bay growers send to Wellington about 800 or 1000 cases of this fruit a day at this time hi the season, but now supplies from thero are only dribbling in in lots of. ten and twenty cases.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 8
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140THIS YEAR'S EARLY PEACHES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 8
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