PASSION FRUIT FOR AMERICA.
The Department of Commerce, Australia, has received advice from the official secretary for-the Commonwealth in New York' that increasing interest is being taken in U.S.A.' in Australian passion fruit, and publicity has been given in the American Press to certain displays of the fruit which have recently, been made in high-class fruit shops in New York. ■■ The1 fruit has -excijed , much- interest, and the price in one central shop was a dollar a dozen. As passion fruit is at present only ' grown in California iii small quantities and is in thej novelty'stage, the official ; secretary considers that there should be a good opportunity for Australian fruit in ' this market.. .■", .. '(■.■. • . - Out of 974 employees of the Southern , Railway in Britain who-recently retired \ on pension, 57 men had been in con- ; Btant work for more than fifty years each. ; ■ ■ Canon J. L. Kyle, vicar of. Carlton-in- ' Cleveland, North1 .Yorkshire, who owns ■ two farms, lias \ bought the only village ', inn so that he could close it on Sundays.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 129, 3 June 1933, Page 14
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