Fruit is cheap in Dunedin, and probably will be cheap right through the holidays (says the Star). In some shops good bananas can be bought at 40 per shilling. Too many were imported in the last shipment, so the auctioneers stored them and they ripened all at once, and had to be sold at low prices. The shipment of Californian apples also exceeded the demand. Buyers alroady ha-d their stocks for Christmas, and the latter lot had to be sold at from 6s- to 8s per case wholesale, though a few cases of very choice brought as much as 14s. Other fruits aro also plentiful, and very soon the apricots wiU bo-• coming- to hand from Central' Otago,
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 1, 3 January 1916, Page 6
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