APPLES FOR EXPORT
LARGE SHIPMENT BEING ASSEMBLED. The work of assembling and preparing the shipment of fruit for export to London this month is proceeding satisfne- . torily. The consignment, which comprises some 30,000 odd cases of apples, will be loaded by the Athenic between April 7 and 15. Possibly a few hundred cases of pears will be shipped by the same steamer. The apples will largely be made up of the Jonathan, Dunn’s Favourite, and Delicious varieties, and will, a Dominion reporter was informed, require to fetch a wholesale price of .£1 per case, approximately, in order to return a satisfactory profit to the grower. With 401 b. to a case, this works out at 6d. per lb. 4 More than ordinary inetrest attaches to the shipment in view of the fact that it is the first to be subject to the new regulation regarding the compulsory wiring of cases. Quite a number of eases exported Inst year were wired voluntarily, remarked an officer of the Agricultural Department yesterday, and the results achieved fully justified the general adoption of the practice. The pears, being in half-cases, will not require to be wired.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 160, 2 April 1921, Page 5
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192APPLES FOR EXPORT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 160, 2 April 1921, Page 5
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