NEW ZEALAND LEMONS
(P.A.) Wellington, Sept. 14. The acting-Director of Internal Marketing, Mr. R. P. Fraser, in a statement to-day said that supplies or lemons at present, were at their heaviest. "The system of paying growers on a graduated scale, designed to spread the picking of the crop over* as long ia season as climatic conditions will allow, has been in operation since February of this year and is proving very useful in encouraging growers to pick lemons throughou t the year, thus maintaining some supplies during the off season, when New Zealand is generally dependent on imports,” he said. "Of the Australian lemon crop 50 per cent, haj been taken by the Commonwealth rtlovernment for juicing purposes, and it is therefore unlikely that any large supplies will be available from Australia during the off season. Retail prices in New Zealand have recently been reduced to a flat rate throughout the Dominion, ranging from 9d to 2s 6d a dozen according to size.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 219, 16 September 1943, Page 6
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