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Show FOREIGN MARKET FOR GRAPES New Zealand Is Possible Outlet fop California Surplus Growing Seasons Opposite. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) As the result of the fruit market investigations carried on recently in New Zealand by a special investigator investiga-tor of the bureau of markets, United States department of agriculture, co-operating co-operating with the American consul general at Auckland, grapes from the pi rv. I c I New Zealand Has Removed Trade Re-strictions Re-strictions on American Grapes. United States henceforth are to be allowed entrance into that country. Heretofore imports of the fruit into New Zealand have been allowed only from Australia. It is found that large quantities of grapes are consumed in New Zealand, but owing to the opposite growing seasons sea-sons in that country and the United States, the only grapes in the market during the American season are from hothouses, the prices ranging approximately approxi-mately from 25 cents to 75 cents a pound. It is believed that the opening open-ing of the New Zealand markets will afford in time a fairly substantial outlet out-let for California varieties such as the Malaga and Red Emperor. |