ONIONS IN DEMAND
HIGH PRICES RULING. ON ACCOUNT OF SHIPMENTS TO AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A rich harvest is assured Canterbury onion growers this season. On today’s wholesale price of £l5 a ton growers get a return of about £225 to the acre, based on an average yield of fifteen tons. High prices are ruling in Neew Zealand mainly because of the big demand in Australia, where such an attractive market is offering that the bulk of the Dominion’s production is likely to be sold there. A second shipment of about twenty tons of Canterbury onions was made today by the Karetu for the Sydney market. Early autumn-grown onions comprised the first shipment this season, about three weeks ago. Apart from Canterbury exports, one thousand tons of onions have been shipped from Auckland to Sydney and it is understood that they .commanded a very satisfactory price.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1939, Page 8
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149ONIONS IN DEMAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1939, Page 8
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