GLUT OF FRUIT
IN BRITISH MARKETS LONDON, September 12. Some English orchardists are now worse off than Australian fruitgrowers. In many districts in England orchardists are forced to leave magnificent crops of apples, pears, and plum* to rot on the trees, as it docs not pay to gather and market them. The Ministry of'Agriculture says that there has never before been such a colossal apple harvest in England. A Covent Garden merchant says he has never seen such a bad state of affairs. Market stands are groaning vritb the enormous supplies of apples, yet the merchants cannot get prices to cover commission and transport. How. ever, apples are still retailed in tha shops at 4d to 6d a lb. One orebardist committed suicide. His brother-in-law told the coroner that the depression prices had affected his mind.
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Evening Star, Issue 21835, 26 September 1934, Page 9
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136GLUT OF FRUIT Evening Star, Issue 21835, 26 September 1934, Page 9
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