Demand For Luxury Christmas Fare Brisk
Despite high prices the demand for luxury food lines for the Christmas period was brisk at Whakatane., Poultry was in plentiful supply,* with ham a somewhat scarce commodity. The customary Christmas, vegetables were easy to buy. New season’s stone fruit, wefc’e in good supply. Imported and New Zealand., oranges found a ready market. Whakatane’s supply, of tinned and dried fruit arrived only just in time for Christmas selling. Mixed nuts found a ready sale, but walnuts were hard to get, due it is thought, to the failure o>f the Gisborne crop.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 10, 6 January 1948, Page 5
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97Demand For Luxury Christmas Fare Brisk Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 10, 6 January 1948, Page 5
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