APPLE EXPORT PROSPECTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 15 January 1913, Page 10

APPLE EXPORT PROSPECTS.

i 30.000-CASES EOE'SOUTH' AMEEICA.' ] Inquiries' made "yesterday elicited : the i v . information! that space has. already been J taken-by. agents .tor • South ' American' 1 firms for' 311,000. cases of New Zealand j apples from this season's crop. Tho Nel-. .; Fruit ' Growers' . Association was •■■ anxious to test the' ; North American mar-, i' ket.randiespecially :Vaneouver,' with. New Zealand-grown .peachesi-and pears, .' : and '• thby'.liad'asked the'assistance 6f-lhe'Gov- '; ernme'iit':,in:this, [direction. The assistance'asked tfor :was; granted, and it was intended to'•.have 1000 cases of peaches and ppars coinbihed, in' three sue- ' ,' cefesiv-y I shipui-o'ntsy[ but" f a'lidiuicully has cropped ~iip,. inasmuch "as the s'eamers i "cannot"provide the.,..necessary cool stor-ago.-':',''rt:"'ia ; . the shipments'can be made. ?-.■■• '"k,\ Tho Government,has;renewed its guaranteo on'shipments to .England this sea- ',' i'gbrij'i but- in.:'.view.:;or .the. heavy orders ' ifi-ora South America it is stated that the ,' that shipments to England ' .■Will ; bo -light. '•'"■'. ■ -.-'■ ■' --. ■'.'-.■'■ ''■"•' 0 to the South American order, - it is understood;, that",the; Waitemata - ,Eruit Growers' Association ',is.',paying ■; Auckland'grower9/55..6d. per case,.,'in 'stpre at Auckland. - . •. ~• : ..