ORANGES FOR SALE
BUT BUYERS HOLD OFF
ACTION IN WELLINGTON
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. There are oranges for sale on the W ellington market to-day, but they are not being bought. The retailers find themselves unable to agree that the price fixed by the Government is a reasonable one, and when the fruit is put up for auction there is no response from the members of the Retail Fruiterers’ Association. The oranges, which are the first shipment. from the Cook Islands, arrived at Auckland by the .Limerick and were railed to Wellington. The Government fixed the price at from 14s to 2is a case, according to count , and at a meeting this morning it was decided that member.'! should not handle the oranges unless the price was reduced by 2s Gd a ease on the ground that, the fruit was not in good condition. One owner of a. harrow seized the opportunity by buying 35 cases for sale in the city streets.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 15
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