An Unprofitable Shipment

Fijian Bananas

COMMENTING on a shipment of ap proximately 1000 cases of Fijian ban anas, which reached Sydney on 30th Nov ember, a prominent banana merchant said that the consignment consisted largely of over-ripe fruit. A loss would be experienced by the growers, except on those lines which arrived green. It had cost 25/- a case to land the fruit here, but the over-ripe bananas were realising only 18/-. The Fijian shipment was not competing in any serious way with Australian-grown bananas.