BIG TOMATO CONSIGNMENT

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2303, 4 September 1929, Page 7

BIG TOMATO CONSIGNMENT

NEARLY 28,000 HALF-CASES Two records in the marketing of Queensland tomatoes in Sydney were made recently when nearly 28,000 half-bushels were sold m bulk to condiment factories. The quantity was. the biggest ever taken to' Sydney markets these two organisation northern State, and the- 1 biggest ever disposed, of in one line. The tomatoes were all from the Bowen district, 17.bC0 half-eases of the-total having been consigned under the auspice.; of the Rpwen Export Co-operative Association, and the remaining 10.300 through the Queensland Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing. Wiifth the. object of avoiding a likely glut on tlie Sydney marots these two organisation# eombinod with local selling agents to negotiate the sale in bulk to tlie /-Tories, No portion of the conisignment way offered to retail, buyers on thy markets.