THE PRICE OF FRUIT.
••Vegetarian" writes to the editor: —As one who, during the summer months especially, eschews butchers' meat and bestows additional patronage on the fruiterers, I should like to draw attention to the exorbitant prices one is culled upon to pay, especially at present, for pineapples and strawberries. . The fruiterer doesn't even blush when lie asks me to pay eijrlitpence for a twopenny pineapple, or cightecnpcncc for a dish o strawberries that might to sell for sixpence." A "News" reporter set out to I'md how much troth there was in the complaint, lie ascertained that pineapples for some weeks past have been sold at auction for from Is (id to 4s per ease of from two to three dozen in each, with (is or (is (id for an extra line sample occasionally.
Strawberries brought from '.ld to 15il a pound at auction. Pin.'applcs, bou«ht, let us suv, for Id or -2d each, are'sold in the shops at 4d, (id, or 8:1; and strawberries at a shilling to Is (id a pound. Will the information suiiice to show the man who goes to the auction sale for his fruit., at any rate for his pineapples, has rather the best of the deal?
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81903, 15 December 1906, Page 2
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203THE PRICE OF FRUIT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81903, 15 December 1906, Page 2
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