NEW ZEALAND'S APPLE EXPORT TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 14

NEW ZEALAND'S APPLE EXPORT TRADE.

' It is..astoiiislmig.liow great- a develop.-.; ment may.take placojn.so small a.coun-,, try as New ; .Zealand/s'and 'yet how .many/; people may: remaiiif ignorant of that development;' During ,tho-last three.;,years; over 150,000 apple' trees have been planted iir tlio ..Nelson district. " I'i order to secure 1 markets ', for ~'the (liirget appio crop.Viyhichf these.' tre'es" : ;wlll produce ill a .fc-'v years, 'organisation's for handling .have .'been formed. To-day tho position'is I .that, although tho supply of apples is', increasing every year, yet it is.' rapidly fnliing bi'low the demand. • Onk-rs 'for .oyer'.'loo,ooo cases this year, will reriiam- unfulfilled. Price-a >arc naturally:on- the rise,-, and the applo farmer is'stated to'.bo- reaping a rich harvest. "" The Nelson/province is certainly about the most "suitable district in New Zealand for tho culture of tho export apple," and Messrs. : J: T. Horn, Ltd., aro .well-known- agents for that district-. Anyone interested in fruit culture from tho point of view of profit, health, and pleasure : can obtain much useful information by perusing their advertisement which apnears elsewhere, and communicating with them.