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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 83, 2 January 1929, Page 15

Strawberries have never been more plentiful in Auckland than now, and prices are at the lowest level they have reached for a number of years (says the "Herald”). Owing to the excessive wet weather and the very large number of strawberries being offered the values realised at the Auckland city markets

were only about Gd. a chin, the highest being 7jd. Those prices leave no margin of profit to the grower. In addition to providing heavy supplies for the local market, growers have been able to consign large quantities to the South, a record shipment of 700 crates being made by the two expresses one evening last week. Of this consignment the greater portion was for the Wellington market, the remainder being sent to intermediate towns.