323,400,000 APPLES.
HOBART. Juno 3.
Tasmania’s season for the oversea export of fruit lias ended With the sailing of the Commonwealth liner, Hobson’s Bay. Tim quantity exported was 2,077,031 bushel cases, au increase of 763,000 cases Over last year. It is a record.
The quality was excellent, and the best for the past four seasons. Reckoning 154 to the case, about 323,400.000 apples have been shipped. At the. proverbial rate of an apple a day. it would last ihe whole population of Great Britain for only a, weijk..,,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 3
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88323,400,000 APPLES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 3
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