Canadian grocer July-December 1908 . acies—the best staplegroceries, fmiti? and vegetables, al-ways fresh and reasonably priced. THE CANADIAN GROCER Grocery News From Coast to Coast Items From Western Canada First Apples and Peaches on the Vanco uver Market—Developing the TobaccoIndustry—Novel Prize System in Saskatoon. VANCOUVER. August 15.—In connection with thereduction of the price of bread to fivecents for a one and a quarter-poundloaf, it might be of interest to mentiona fact that was brought to the attentionof The Grocer by a former resident ofNew Zealand who is now resident inthis city
Canadian grocer July-December 1908 . acies—the best staplegroceries, fmiti? and vegetables, al-ways fresh and reasonably priced. THE CANADIAN GROCER Grocery News From Coast to Coast Items From Western Canada First Apples and Peaches on the Vanco uver Market—Developing the TobaccoIndustry—Novel Prize System in Saskatoon. VANCOUVER. August 15.—In connection with thereduction of the price of bread to fivecents for a one and a quarter-poundloaf, it might be of interest to mentiona fact that was brought to the attentionof The Grocer by a former resident ofNew Zealand who is now resident inthis city. He stated that in New Zea-land the standard price is five cents for flavor. Extreme vigilance is being exer-cised by the inspectors in regard to theimportations of fruit from California,for codlin moth is found. A large num-ber of boxes of Bartlett pears have beencondemned and returned to the place ofshipment because of the presence of thispest. J. H. Paul, of Fairfield Island, Chilli-wack district, has the credit of being. ONE OF THE STORES BURNED AT FERNIE, The splendid grocery interior illustrated in the above engraving was thatof W. J. Blundell, of Fernie, , and was one of the stores destroyed in therecent disastrous Mr. Blundell had one of the finest and most modernstores in the Province. His loss is estimated at $4,600, which was covered by$3,000 insurance. a two-pound loaf, which is nearly doublethe weight of that sold in , bakers have to carry weightsso that the bread may be weighed shouldany customer demand it. This, too,with flour, he says, at very few timescheaper than what it is here, and oftenit is much dearer. The first shinment of local apples hasarrived from Ihomas Earls orchard atLytton, and the fruit is Gravensteins are also on themarket and look well and have excellent the first man in that part of the Pro-vince to have local peaches. Two weeksago he picked the first of the season,and has est
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