IMPORTED APPLES AND PEARS.
The first of this season's consignments of Taemauian apples nnd pears camo to hend on Friday last, July 17. but -nvin? to thfl presence of "red. mite" pr.ict'cally the whole shipment wae condemned to be fumigated hero. -Thie process necessitates tho cases being in the first ploco carted to the flimitation-house, where they are all opened and emptied of their contents, when all the paper wrftpninge have to bo taken from the fruit, which is then fumigated. When the fruit is released, it has ./to be repacked into the caees in the unwrapped condition, which causes cmite a proportion to become bruised, spoiiini: to an extent its eelling appearance. The fruit, especially the apples, shipped last week, will certainly show a very poor ToUtrn, as the host results obtainable wns about 6s. sd. per caea. Scoins that the furnigation charge ie 6d. per case, the ship/ pors will certainly receive a. poor Tcturn when freight, duty, cartasc, and eellin" charßos arty deducted.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2211, 25 July 1914, Page 8
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166IMPORTED APPLES AND PEARS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2211, 25 July 1914, Page 8
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