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''Singapore advices by cable to Wellington this week show a rise of 2s 6d per ton on tapiocas and sagos. Canned pineapples are firm owing to the season closing. Recently-published statistics show that shipments of canned pineapples from Singapore for 193G amounted .to 3,400,000 cases each of four dozen pound cans. The rising price of tin and plate has had an important bearing on recent quotations for canned pineapples. Argentine canary seed is reported as selling well, prices favouring buyers. Very little business is doing in rice and pricesars steady. Haricot beans are in slack demand and present prices are attractive.
Australian pudding fruits are reported as running in short supply owing to heavy shipments to the United Kingdom and to Canada. Confirmation is necessary for orders for threecrown currants'. Canned Australian fruits available for New Zealand are now confined to peaches, all supplies of pears and apricots having been exhausted. Ceylon desiccated coconut :s showing a rising tendency, the last advance being 2s per cwt in Colombo.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 12
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170GROCERY LINES Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 12
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