PEACHES FROM FRANCE
TRANSPORT TO BRITAIN QUICK SERVICE BY PLANE LONDON. June 9. Air Vice-marshal Bennett has solved the problem for Covent Garden merchants who wished to take advantage of France’s finest peach crop for 10 years, but were unable to arrange quick transport because the hiring of small planes was too expensive. The Daily Mail says Air Vice-mar-shal Bennett has rented a Lancaster from the R.A.F with which he is running a service from Paris carrying 2500 cases every day, with the result that the prices of peaches, which were fantastic in London during the war, have already dropped to Is each, and they will probably soon be 6d each.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26175, 11 June 1946, Page 5
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