CHEAP FRUIT.
One often hears complaints about the dearness of fruit, but frequently the public ha-s only itself to blame if it cannot get all the fruit it wants at a very low price. At the auction rooms in Christchurch on Tuesday, .pears sold down to Is a case. In one instance a case of over-ripe pears went for 6d! Apples sold from Is 6d a case upwards, and a fine sample of dessert plums, nicely packed in three trays of 121b each, or 361b in all, went for 4s 3d. Inferior lots went for about a penny per lb. Seeing that anyone may go and bid for fruit at the sale-rooms (says the Press) it is a little surprising that the ring of (buyers was almost entirely confined to the trade.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10572, 1 March 1912, Page 4
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132CHEAP FRUIT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10572, 1 March 1912, Page 4
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