Fruit Shortage In Britain
“There isn't a housewife in Britain to-day who has seen a banana for four years; if you showed one to a British child, up to six years of age he would not know what to do with it," Mr W. Bankes Amery, leader of the United Kingdom Food Mission to Australia and New Zealand, told a meeting of labour representatives in Christchurch this week. To save shipping space. said 1 Mr Amery, shipments of fresh fruit and eggs to Britain had been cut out.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32420, 19 April 1944, Page 3
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88Fruit Shortage In Britain Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32420, 19 April 1944, Page 3
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