INFECTED FRUIT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9480, 6 December 1907, Page 5

INFECTED FRUIT.

WELLINGTON, December 5.

A shipment of apricots from Parramatta, Ryde, and other places near Sydney, which arrived by yesterday's steamer, proved to be affected by the Queensland fly. The great majority of the fruit was free from the parasite, but on account of the contiguity the number of cases destroyed totalled three hundred, and only fifty >got through. These latter were sold this morning at satisfactory prices, but the- loss on the condemned , fruit will total about £250. The plums by the same boat were free from the parasite, but the shipment was small. It realised good prices at thfe # morning's auction sales.