Tons of Fiji Peanuts for New Zealand
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New Zealand
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. June 14. rdate, Fiji has exported 146,200 lb. of peanuts to New Zealand in 1948.
May, with 60,000 lb., was the peak month.
And yet, on June 3, the “New Zealand Herald,” Auckland, lamented the scarcity of peanuts from Fiji, blaming high prices and the lack of import licences.
Retail prices in Auckland are 1/3 a pound for the small variety and 1/6 for the large. In Wellington the retail price in the shell is reported to be 2/-.
Despite all this, a correspondent re cently criticised a “Fiji Times” suggestion that there is money in peanuts, on the ground that the price received by the grower in Fiji does not cover the cost of production unless the whole business is mechanised.