AUSTRALIAN CRAPES.
N.Z. GROWERS INDIGNANT,
Press Association
WELLINGTON, Jail. 26
The first shipment of grapes from Australia is expected by the AVimmera on Wednesday.. Fruit merchants here advised their friends in New South ‘Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, of the removal of the restrictions oil Australian grapies, and the conditions under which they would bo admitted were cabled. The Gazette notices were sent to grapie shippiers by the Aloeraki, which left for Australia oil Friday. Local growers of grapes under glass feel the removal of the prohibition very keenly, especially as the Australian grapes will come in at a time when they will compete with the hothouse variety. One grower assured an “Evening Post” representative that if lie could get 9<l or llkl per lb for all his output during the season he would only just about pay expenses.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2098, 27 January 1908, Page 2
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