APPLES FOR EXPORT
| A BIG DEMAND IN NELSON. j (By Teleffraph—Press Association.) . Nelson, March 8. • There has been an extraordinary demand for apples for export in the Nelson district. During the' past fewweeks buyers have literally chased one another' through the district snapping up every available case. South America is exerting a strong claim on New Zealand apples and would absorb many more times as much fruit as is available. There has been a particularly heavy crop of this year, and growers have been receiving between 6s. and 7s. a oaso from Wellington. Buyers have also been operating from other parts of New Zealand where the crops have been a failure and to some extent have increased the demand, but South America iB the greatest market. Since the'market there has been opened up, fruit-growing in Nelson' has made rapid strides. During the past few years the new orchards planted represent 4500 acres, or 728,000 trees. It is estimated there will be a million and a half cases for export in a very few years' time.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2404, 9 March 1915, Page 7
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175APPLES FOR EXPORT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2404, 9 March 1915, Page 7
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