A BAP FRUIT SEASON
i i [liY TKI.KOIIAPII. — OWX I.'OHP.ESI'OXIjKNT.] OiimsTOintßfH, Sunday. It is reported, that fin; Fruit crop in Canterbury will be practically a failure this season on account of the extremely had weather that has been experienced. The last and most, serious damage was by the south-west gale that blew for several days at the beginning 01 this week. Reports from many other parts of the world where much fruit is grown, state that the crops have been. poor. A leading Christ-church grocer says that some kinds of preserved fruit, which sold at 6d a tin last year, ate now soiling i at lOd a tin, and that there is a general rise I in the price of preserved and dried fruit imported into the colony. I __
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12759, 9 January 1905, Page 3
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129A BAP FRUIT SEASON New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12759, 9 January 1905, Page 3
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