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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 112, 16 November 1928, Page 12

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Xour season's Persian dates, direct shipment Busra to Sydney, ex I'r.elyon, are due here in the Marama. 'lth December. Stocks of Australian sliced peaches, standard and second grades, are exhausted, and further supplies .are not available before March or April next year. Singapore cables show a modification in the prices of peppers, latest advices by cable showing falls of 3-Sd per pound on black, VM on white, and Id on Muntok. Prunes from California are expected to be in ample supply this season.. Locally, there is a growing demand ' for larger sizes. The Australian Dried Fruits Control Board have cabled from Melbourne to their New Zealand agents advising withdrawal of all grades of currants, and also 3-crown sultanas from further sale, owing to f supplies for. export being exhausted. This leaves only plain quality and 1-croivn and 2-crown sultanas still available. The demand for these grades of fruit are at their heaviest during the next two months. New season's Sicily 'almonds for shipment from London in January are quoted at 10s per cwt under curreut rates. Muscatels for the Christmas trade, arc reported as openiug up very well. Singapore pineapples' remain at a low price level. IV nang cable advices show no change in prices for tapiocas, the market remains firm. Norwegian brisling are. reported by private cable as in very short supply, but there has been a drop in the price of sild.