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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 7

Tho strawberry crop in Auckland this year is the best; known for years, the berries "being more plentiful tlinn usual and of larger size and good flavour. As a consequence there has been a big supply of thin popular fruit on the local market'. Efforts to reach a wider market down the lino per medium of the fast trains have not been successful, as tho Railway Department, found it impossible to . relax the restrictions imposed'during the wfli- period, and only a limited quantity of strawberries is transported daily, on the express trains. As a result consumers in the city have been luxuriating in early strawberries at a price averaging sixpence a chip less than they have hithejtn had to pay in November. Unfortunately there is a possibility of a drop in supply and a rise in price before Christmas, as the growers report that a continuance of the present spell of dry weather will nieaii a sudden falling olf in tho' production of tho strawberry beds, and a scarcity, of the fruit by Christmas timq.