HOUSEHOLD WANTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 January 1926, Page 7

HOUSEHOLD WANTS.

SOME LINES FIRMING. PHIUIT IN SHORT SUPPLY. Late advice shows that in some lilies much in demand in the household there is a scarcity and that consequently an advance in price -irs pretty certain. The position of the flour market seems to show that flour must rise. The demand of the farmers who are wheat growers for a. larger price guarantee foreshadows a rise in flour, which may reach 60s per ton. In evaporated fruits there is a scarcity in supply from the countries where they are grown. The sources from which requirements are drawn are principally California and South Africa, and in the former there is a pronounced shortage, and South Africa will not be able to cope with the- demand and the result will be a rise of perhaps twopence or threepence a pound. Raisins come mostly from America, and reports show a decided shortage with the almost inevitable hardening of price to the consumer. Witlii regard to fresh fruit in Hawke’s Bay, whence i«-i drawn the bulk of the supply for the local market, the frosts experienced when the fruit was forming has been followed by a dry spell, which- has caused the' stone fruit to drop off the trees. This has caused a pronounced shortage and prices are likely to be much abovojast year. In the case of apricots, local merchants report- that a regain early variety from Central Otago, which lias a, great vogue, is; quoted this year at a price about double that ruling at this time last year. The “Triumph’ peach froni| Hawke’s Bay, which generally is very plentiful, is this year hardly procurable. Though these are not actually the most common of the necessaries of life, they are all much in demand and the result will be decidedly unfavourable for the ordinary householder.