FRUIT AND FINGER-NAILS
Through the employment oi some hundreds of girls in picking, fruit in one New Zealand district, the condition of some of the fruit had been affected by numerous marks of finger-nails, which disfigured the fruit seriously sometimes, and in the case of exported cases caused the partial rotting of fruit, said Mr. G. Stafford, when speaking to the Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association. He emphasised the importance of care being exercised in the picking of fruit. On one apple, he added, amidst laughter, had had seen an excellent imprint of five fingernails 1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 12
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94FRUIT AND FINGER-NAILS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 12
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