SALE OF NEW ZEALAND FRUIT AT SAN FRANCISCO

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 26 August 1915, Page 2

SALE OF NEW ZEALAND FRUIT AT SAN FRANCISCO

FOLLOWING are the average gross prices . " f per case realised on the San Francisco ' ; market for a consignment of sixty-three -V cases of apples and pears, shipped on the ' Ist April, per s.s. Marama, for competition at the Panama Pacific International Exposition:— i APPLES 'v Average Price ? Johnathaa ... *%£?> * -Kome Beauty ... 7aJ|d *-~ Monroe's Favorite .. 7s|k iZ Delicious 6g^ Cox s Orange Pippin ... * £ Pears ( Winter Nelis ... ' 15s 7d '--g Winter Cole ... i4 s 7d v Beurre Clairgeau ... 12s 6d X* Beurre Bosc ... 12s 6d Josephine ... lis 7d "'^ Vicar of Winkfield ...' 10s 7d *£ Beurre Diel ... 8 s 4d V* Lucy Grieve ... 5s lOd ,-'$ Vermont Beauty ... ... ' H The apples landed in good order, c*- -* ceptmg-the only case of Cox's Orange "v Pmpm, which turned out bruised and V unfit for sale. Of thenars, one case of - * Winter Cole, one of Beurre Clairgeau, fe /> and the only two of Vermont Beauty wf* ?> were rotten and had to be destroyed*''* J The fruit came from the Otago, Nelson * < fy and Hawke's Bay Districts. Owing to " 'fi the small quantity sent, the fruit could '.^ not be carried under the best conditions. 'Xl The Union Steamship Company, however, r\" very kindly allowed it to go in the ship's :/-, vegetable-store. ;s&L - *» Should you have anything nice' to say '>&&§ about yourself, your friends, 6r gener- '^8 ahties, send it to the Echo.* ; "M