APPLES FROM CANADA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 102, 24 January 1919, Page 8

APPLES FROM CANADA

!■■'■-■ A BELATED SHIPMENT. ! A : consignment 0f'14,350 cases of apj pies, which were over-carrfed by. the I steamer . Makura to Sydney early in j Decptriber last, was brought ■' back to I 'Auckland by the same, vessel late on ! Monday night ,and uploading opera- ; irons were commenced on Tuesday. The ■ fruit which is comprised principally of j two- varietiesxjonathan and M'lntosh ,- Red, was shipped at Vancouver «arlv ; in and under ordinary cir- . cymstances would have been on -the 1 local market for the Christinas trade i However, Auckland was jnst - recoveri ing from the epidemic'of influenza, aiid ■■■as the vessel had sickness on board ,: it was quarantined for some days.'after ! which it proceeded on its vo'vnge to lat this W rt oUt " Illoading »"* MJBO ', - The delay has resulted in a I cry ser- ! '° u , s financial loss to both the shippers and to the Auckland buyers for not . ed, but the fruit has also deteriorated ! bv reason of the protracted delay. Of ■: the shipment, about 6000 cases aro on j consignment from Canadian deaths ord.n h f r i ßo^°u Cases bei "g sent to tlie [order of local buyers. -Bought at 17, iit S/T' lfc , lS e at «n«*«l that had the. rmt been placed on the Auckland : ■ market at the schedule time it would [have realised from 225. 6d to 24s J per case, instead of 6s to'los tL pnees realised at auction. TW^ices