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THE FRUIT INDUSTRY 



TABLE C. 



AVERAGE PRICES PER CWT. OF FOREIGN AND COLONIAL 

 FRUIT AND VEGETABLES IMPORTED DURING THE 

 YEARS igOO TO 1904 INCLUSIVE. 



The prices as given per cwt. are generally most useful, but if 

 prices per ton are required, read the shillings values as pounds 

 sterling and divide the pence by '6 to derive the fractions of ^i as 



* The higher prices recorded in 1903 for soft fruits were ob- 

 tained by foreign growers owing to the very wet, dull season of 

 that year, when English fruit did not mature well ; consequently 

 Continental producers pressed their advantage and rushed their 

 fruit into the high-priced English markets. 



t Haricot beans included to April 14, 1902, after which date 

 duty was levied on them and they were separately recorded under 

 4 corn, etc.,' ' beans, haricot. 3 



