CHRISTMAS FRUIT TRADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17033, 14 December 1918, Page 8

CHRISTMAS FRUIT TRADE.

-.., . SHORTAGE OF SUPPLIES.; | It is probable 'thai' the Christmas iruili j %

. supply in; Auckland, will.be< very scanty, m . an compared with previous seasons. ; Mr. jfe , H. Evans, president of the Fruit Retailers' j § . Association, stated:*; yesterday that the m I local stocks of bananas would be exhausted 1 . by the. end of next week, and there was tfj f apparently no prospect of farther ship-;I ffl ments arriving until .the return ofiiai-S Talune from the Islands, about the begin- j| . nine of January. tln regard to apples, ha ffl . saia that unless a ; considerable shipment.. M . arrived from .Sydney the only stocks avail- M t , able would those held. locally in cool>V | storage. Apples were now selling at 8d...: § a pound wholesale, and there did not ? |j appear to; be any immediate prospect Ul|| ; Q a decrease in price. /,' | | There is every indication of an excellent?. | strawberry cro for tho Christmas marktrt. - m In connection with the consignment Ui?f| 9 Canadian apples intended * for - New Zea- ■ g land, which was carried to . Sydney by fckfl ■, 11 Makura, Messrs. E. H. Little, of A. Too- S man and Co., Ltd., and H. Turner, en if 1 , behalf of the Auckland consignees, had »j|| 13 conference with the Hon. A M. MyerS| ; £|yj at Wellington on Wednesday, with the 'M object- of arranging for the disposal of the 11 apples on the Sydney market. Mr. Myen fl is communicating with the Australian Gov-,;; IB ernment with a view of arranging the §9 matter, as the fruit could not be brought ; [H* : back to New Zealand in time for the JH Christmas-trade. •.'•:. - : . '.•£■'» II