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Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 55

For the first time for seven years, Australian bananas were marketed in Christchurch recently. The fruit came from Queensland, via Melbourne, and realised an average of 26s 6d a case (says the Christchurch Times). The consignment, which was in excellent condition, and of good quality, met with a -keen demand as it_ arrived on a market which was practically bare. For some years it has not been a paying proposition to send bananas from Australia to this country because there is always a good market For high quality in Australia, and also because the Island fruit landed in the Dominion as a rule sells at prices which make Australian competition unattractive. It is only when the New Zealand market ’s poorly stocked at the- same time as there is a large supply available on the other side of the Tasman that the exnorting of bananas from Australia to Xew Zealand becomes a payable proposition.

To the average golfer the hole-in-one is probably considered quite a rarity, but that it happens surprisingly often in the course of a year is shown by the report of. an American safety razor comoany, which shows it gave away in the first four months of this year no fewer than 605 of its safety razor sets, which are offered as prizes to golfers who make a hole-in-one. The company began doing this in 1905, and since then 10,185 men and women in the United States and 3197 in the British Isles have returned ards showing that they had made a hole-in-one. • • -