DUNEDIN FRUIT MARKET. REMARKABLE SCARCITY.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13645, 10 February 1913, Page 8

DUNEDIN FRUIT MARKET. REMARKABLE SCARCITY.

IX) KITED PEEB9 ASSOCIATION.]

Dunedin, Feb. 8. Remarkable condition* prevail in the local fruit market, and it is reported that no/or has there been the eamo scarcity during the past ton years. Prices'of all truits are t xccptionaJl> high, pp.ochx's being 9d alb wholesale; apricots 7id; tomatoes, rough kinds. 9d. At this timo last year the market was over-stocked, and prices low. lhe firm-city is put down to the effect parly in tlie season of the peach curl in tho Tx'viot district.