APPLES FOR EXPORT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 689, 14 December 1909, Page 10

APPLES FOR EXPORT.

; ; |i AND THE GOVERNMENT.GUAEAIJTEE/ .fit is doubtful if .the' Government's, guarantee of a pqnhy per pound net return for apples exported to Europe, this season will, cause auy /considerable quantity, to leave New Zealand. 'Apple values have not.yet fallen to a penny- . iier-pound level—for anything fit- for , export— and there will .still -' exist thp absence of marketable quantity in any. lino; that might be ■ offered. ,: ; Yet the prospects; of a. good price at ■ Home; ore /'very Vfair just. now." Although it is said '-. that' Tasmania will. export rather more than jn former years, there has been a shortage .ilv the fruit crop in America. Consequently, the shipments from New Zealand; if any, should .be made early, and a good demand should then be met. . ■•■ ' \ •■. ■ ■■'■■;. ■■: ■ , -•',The :guarantee has been, made on .i'ormer occasions, but has not yet succeeded in starting a'genuine export industry. The ■' conditions attached to tho Government guarantee appear reasonable, namely—(a)'--That such','shipments ■(ire approved by the Departmental officers; (b) ■that .they are packed in- the .Tasmanian or ■ peacock'export cases; (c) that', the ' consign■'.ttaonts;are shipped in cool storage; (d).that the ■ asspciatipns maKe their own arrailgements'with the shipping companies and.for salo in London; (e) the /Fruit Divisi9n : will bo, glad' to render qvery.'assistatico;' (f).. the Goyerninqht wjll-ask the .Produco ■. Commissioner in , .London to eiamino the apples oii arrival and-report. .■■'! Orchardists at Nelson and' Stoke aro rpported ti) be in icpmmanication with shipping'comp'anies. nnd "others concerning freight, etc.

'^Dairy,.■'farmers- in Haivke's Bay are apparently ■having,;, spmo difficulty 'in ■ obtaining milkers'; tKis season (says, the 'fHerald"). It may be .that -tlio iucrease,in'dairying has q'reated a'demand for. extra hands,' or .that few life willing to follow this , occupation. Mr. E W.' P.? Gohns, of.the Labour Department, states tha,t■.he-has received numerous applications from farmers desiring milkers, and tlint he.cduld probably place a : fair number in ■;; : ;:'.;-,.;; ■'-■■:;;/■■; :. : .;. ; ..' ■"■;■. ■■. '.supports -as., to. tho' probable ■■ ainount of the fruit-crop are , of a very character. Han'ke's.Bny expects a heavy crop of all variereports .from, districts less ■exfensiyelj;:. devoted ftp --the-..industry,- are of a ..loss one'.miist. place ,most reliaucp on tho .reports of'.those; districts which spedialiso in thp.-.wqr.k'; Apparently:theOutput ■iHHnDO .well 'tip-■to"'the-averag^:-p6r' : acre',:'and rather beyond it: .in- the- aggregate,-. owing ,to. •:youog 'orchards'' ibining;;into;.bearing.''•.:■*>■'.