In New Zealand
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Banana Black Market In New Zealand
NEW Zealand’s insatiable capacity for stowing away Island bananas is illustrated by a housewife’s complaint to the Price Tribunal at Auckland.
The complainant declared, and it was easily proved, that up to l/4d per lb was being charged by re tailers at country towns not far from Auckland. The fixed maxi mum legal price is 9h d per lb in Auckland and lOd for the area concerned in the complaint, though in practice 1/- is frequently charged.
The under-the-counter, favoured customer rule still applies in more distant country areas. t Believed to have been used by Bully Hayes as a ship’s watch lantern, a brass lantern of the type used by the London police in the xnid-19th century has been pre sented to the Fiji Museum by Mr.
L. M. Nutt, a well-known collector of New Plymouth, NZ. The lantern was found ten years ago in a house at Mangaia, Cook Islands, and the museum authorities at Suva have stated that its association with Bully Hayes is well attested.