Currants and sultanas are in short* supply in New Zealand owing to the fruit being held up yin Australia fon fr.onths with the strike over there.' . A Napier merchant 3sns just received! a cable advising ths>i +he steamer Kaiapoi winch was to bring practically the whole or the Australian' dried huits from Melbourne io New Zealand has been commandeered by the New Zealand Government and sent to Newcastle for coal, with the result that the fruit was left on the Melbourne Wharf. -
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Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 25 October 1919, Page 4
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82Untitled Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 25 October 1919, Page 4
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