Grapefruit
p. 45 · Read in the full issue
Fiji Residents Don’T Like
From Our Own Correspondent F SUVA, March 20.
IJI’S Agriculture Department reports that growers of grapefruit have diffi culty in disposing of their crops. The department has expressed surprise that this fruit, regarded as a luxury in some overseas countries, is apparently not wanted at Suva.
Suva greengrocers, it is said, are not interested in excellent grapefruit delivered at 1/6 a dozen, and growers have had to sell at the uneconomic price of 6d. a dozen. (It was later discovered that the re tailers were selling at 3/- and 4/- a dozen.)
Mr. Sid Ashton, of Kerema, Papua, ar rived in Australia, with Mrs. Ashton, in March, on furlough.