Dear Strawberries. Strawberries at 18s a bottle and « queue a quarter of a mile long lined up to purchase them even nl that price sounds like a Ripley "be lieve it or not story," but it is vouched for by an Englishman in a letter to a friend in Dunedin. No» only that, but peaches were in great demand at 2s 6d each, while new potatoes were finding many buyers .it 8s 6d a lb. Tomatoes Avere, according to his letter, "slightly reduced," and at the time of writing were selling at a mere 9s a lb. QUEEN Bee Prepared Wax does two I jobs at once—cleans as it shines—■ I quickly and economically.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 142, 15 August 1941, Page 2
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114Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 142, 15 August 1941, Page 2
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