OVER £40,000.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1872, 4 October 1913, Page 8

OVER £40,000.

COMING SEASON'S APPLE EXPORT. New Zealand's apple export for the coming season will be worth over £40,000 to tbo growers, Space has been booked for over 60,000 cases of apples to go to South America alone. , . . Most of these apples will, no doubt, come from the Nelson district, but other fruit-growing localities will also participate. Tlie South American trade is a valuable one, and various suggestions for cultivating it are from time to time made b,y those interested in the fruitgrowing industry. At present there is a suggestion that the Sta to should send to South America a representative towatch the interests of our fruit trade. 1 Tho port to which tho fruit is taken is Monte Video. Trade with this country has tho advantage that artificial cool storage is not accessary. Tho steamers take a course round Cape Horn, and the weather all the way is cool enough to permit of the fruit being sent as ordinary cargo. Thus expense is saved. In and about Monte Video there is a wealthy class of people, who are prepared to pay high prices for what tney want. New Zealand apples there bring high prices, and it is reckoned by authorities that ,155.. per case is not too high an estimate for nest season's shipments. At this rate the 50,000 cases shpuld bring to New Zealand £37,600. In addition to this estimated export, 25,000 cases will (it is considered) be sent to other markets.