NEW ZEALAND APPLES
HIGH PBICES AT HOME. (Sydney Sun Cables.) LONDON", April 5. Coveht Garden marketers are" wonderjag why New Zealand's first fruit arrivals are, unprecederitedly, ten days ahead of the Australian. It is stated thai tins is due, not only to the lateness of the Australian season, but to the fact that the New Zealand Fruit Board arranged for the first consignment to be sent by the mail boat, thus affording growers "a definite date for picking and speedy shipment. Dealers are marvelling at the phenomenal price of the New Zealand Cox!s at private sales in the West End. Deajers doubt whether A(h to 60s per case will again be reached. This price is due to the eagerness of wealthy people to obtain fresh apples, they being tired of stale Americans from storage.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16301, 7 April 1927, Page 10
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