AUSTRALIAN APPLES
SHIPMENT TO LONDON. The Ministry for Shipping has arranged to lift 624.000 boxes of Australian apples, of which about live-sixths aro to be Tasmanian, commencing March or April (says a London cable to the Melbourne papers). Freight will be 7s 7d per box. After numerous conferences of importers, wholesalers, and retailers with tho apple section of the Food Ministry, the latter decided to recommend the Controller to fix tho maximum price for Australian cases, containing not less than 401b, at £1 0s lOd, and for those containing not less than 371b at 19s 3d. Tho maximum retail price for all varieties will remain at 9d per lb.
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Evening Star, Issue 16988, 10 March 1919, Page 3
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109AUSTRALIAN APPLES Evening Star, Issue 16988, 10 March 1919, Page 3
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