AUSTRALIAN GRAPES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2151, 28 March 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN GRAPES.

UNPROFITABLE PRICES.

UNSALEABLE IN DUNEDIN

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 27. The shipment of grapes from Sydney to Wellington by tho Ulimaroa aggregated nearly ten thousand pounds net weight. The -prices obtained will be -unprofitable to consignees, and they suggest that there is want of proper provision for distributing the fruit to districts outside the city. Apparently, even worse conditions prevail in the south, as on Monday next a -further consignment of South Australian grapes is to arrive in Wellington from Dunedin, where they were unsaleable. Tho South Australian grapes by the sflamer Ulimaroa landed hero in splendid condition, and were sold at 3d and 4d iper lb., so that there should bo cheap delicacies available to householders during the next few days. The consignment numbered about 325 cases, or between nine and ten thousand pounds net weight. The prices above quoted will he unprofitable to. -consignees, (and they suggest that there is a want of proper provision for distributing the fruit to districts outside the city, for undoubtedly tho low prices are caused by an excess of supply over demand. There are even worse conditions prevailing in tho South, as shown by the fact that on Monday next |x further consignment of ‘South Australian grapes is to arrive in Wellington for sale by Messrs. Laery and. Co., they having been sent here from Dunedin through failure of tho local market to absorb them.