APPLE EXPORT TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1434, 8 May 1912, Page 10

APPLE EXPORT TRADE.

ARC'rIiNTI.VG AM) HOME .MAKKI-XS. Reference was made yesterday to the tiial shipment of apples which is to be twit io U'.tetios Ayr<H by the Kemnera, tvhich haves Wellington on May M. Details have now come to hand regarding a pilot shipment of JfMlrt eases from Auckland for the Aigentine. The fruit is to leave by the Kimutaka on .May IS, and considerable interest is being taken in it by Auckland orehardists who ha\e hopes of largely developing the trade. According to Mi'. Tonar, manager ot' the Waitemata Fnutgr.-»wer>' Association, Ltd., which association has arranged the trial shipment, the hid which he had leceived from a reputable Bnenos Ayrcs linn enabled an olVer of (N. per -lOllh ease f.o.b. made to the growers. This price, Mr. Tonar says, is highly profitable, and that orehardists were enabled to get into a substantial market like that ef South America without nnv ri>k was a grand opportunity. Me had been promised that a trial shipment- of l'ram 1000 to 10,000 cases would be accepted on the terms slated, but. it was thought that it would be best to ojieii* negotiations with tho minimum quantity. The trip to the Argentine occupies about twenty days, and it is anticipated that there'will be no trouble about the apples carrying to the market in question. It* is stated that the Agricultural Department- has been active in putting ceitain orehardists into touch with tho Argentine market, and it is estimated that altogether this season the Argentine will have received from New Zealand something lik-3 8000 to MOO cases ot apple?. These shipment?, with the exports to Kngland, will, it is expected, bring tho total exports of apples from Zealand up to somewhere in the vicinity ot 17,000 cases before the season closes. . The faith shown by officers of the Agricultural Department in the future ot tho fruit industry may go some way towards hardening up any orchardist who is 111 doubt as to what the future holds lor the industry. The future would appear to be bright,'unless finite a number ox people with the inside running have entirely misjudged the signs of lhe. times. Comparatively recently in Die iruit section at least 'throe instructors have resigned their positions with the Government to accept more lucrative appointments m Uio management of large orchard block;-. One cadet has also resigned to team i'ni it-farming under one ot the former instructors, and the head nf the orchard* division of the Agricultural Department Olr. Kirk) himself owns two orchards, into which he is understood to lis all his capital as rt means of providing foi later years.