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I also suspect that kiwi fruit may not have appeared on th UK scene until air freight started. . Sure, refrigerated mutton, lamb and butter was being shipped by sea by the late thirties (possibly earlier), but for a luxury item like kiwis it may have been too expensive. I suppose there was a bit of greenhouse stuff available to the rich, (some, I've heard, grew their own bananas) but even there whole families had been virtually wiped out during the Great War so that there were few men who knew the trade left to run things. I suspect, before any women here get up in arms, that women had their hands full with more important jobs like bearing and rearing children for the next war.

However, most of today's readers might well pass the mention of kiwi by unless they had the knowledge that you have; but your point is well taken.


Weird Jim

"Good reading is the only test of good writing"
Robertson Davies. A voice from the attic 1960