APPLE SUPPLIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24538, 22 March 1943, Page 2

APPLE SUPPLIES

SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION ARRANGED RETAIL SELLING PRICES FIXED (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Sunday All schools throughout the Dominion are to receive their first consignment of free apples this week for distribution to the pupils, stated the Minister of .Marketing, the Hon. J. G. Barclay, tonight. lu co-operation with the Health Department and the Education Department, the Internal Marketing Department supplied and despatched apples to all schools. "The Government has decided that school children will receive one apple daily during the flush of the season and it will provide full supplies for the local market," said the Minister. "In some schools there was an apparent oversupply during certain periods last year, but this year quantities have been reduced to ensure strictly one apple a day to the nearest case. Heavy quantifies of popular eating varieties of apples arc now coming forward and the low prices at which they Will be offering on the market will have the effect of enabling everyone to enjoy tipples once again. "These apples for the public are being sold by the Internal Marketing Department at from 'ls to 6s 6d a case. As they cost the department about 6s a case, plus freight, insurance and overhead, bringing the total cost up to nearly i)s a case, it can be seen tlmt the public are getting this fruit at very much below cost. The flush of the season has not arrived and for the next two or three months the great bulk of the apples will be sold at these prices."