ORANGE SUPPLIES
Island And Australian Fruit
While the South Island market has been supplied with Australian oranges during the past two mouths, the North Island market has been restricted to island oranges. However, the supplies from the islands have been fairly good, and the quality pretty well up to standard. The last consignment, now being sold throughout the island, are of good quality. Of the larger sizes the percentage of waste was negligible, but in certain lines of smaller fruit there was a loss of 30 per cent, and some hundreds of cases had to be picked over. Most of these were brown-skinned, facetiously called “sun-kissed” at the markets, and had not stood up so well as the big fellows to the time lapse since they were picked and packed in the islands. It is understood that not till these are cleared from the major markets of the North Island will Australian oranges be made available locally,
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 286, 30 August 1941, Page 11
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157ORANGE SUPPLIES Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 286, 30 August 1941, Page 11
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