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Otago Witness, Issue 3443, 9 March 1920, Page 30

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS (41 Pictures)— An Avalanche Palling Off Mount Moffatt. Morning Lights and Mists on the Southern Alps. The Band Contests in Dnnedin. Views of the Ripponvale Orchards. Panoramic View of Port Ahuriri, Napier. A View of Sawyer's Bay. A Group of Women Workers in the Air Force. Members of the W.R.A.P. on a Route March. Xdmiral Peary. Delegates Who Attended the Conference of Civil Engineers, Dunedin. The Otago Peninsula A. and P. Society's Show.

The effect of the 000 l fruit stores on the market was commented upon by Mr Pitt, Government fruit inspector, of Hastings, recently to a reporter of the Poverty Bay Herald. The stores equalised the supplies to the market on the one hand, and were responsible for creating a more even and firm price for the fruit throughout the year. In the middle of the season growerjs would otherwise have fruit rotting on the ground, and it would be so cheap in price that it would hardly pay for the time engaged in picking and sorting. With the cool stores the surplus fruit is put in storage and brought out in the winter time when fruit is scarce. The advent of 000 l storage had put the industry on a firm and progressive basis. At the present- time there were three cool stores in Hastings, one owned by a co-operative company and the other two by private companies.