OTAGO'S EXPORT FRUIT

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 14, 18 January 1933, Page 10

OTAGO'S EXPORT FRUIT

MARKETING PROBLEMS

AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. Otago will probably export 100,000 eases of fruit to England and the Continent this season, the orchards having made a wonderful recovery from last year's devastating blizzard and frosts, according to a statement made by Mr. Harry Turner, London representative of the New Zealand' Fruit Marketing Board, before he left on his return to England. ' "I do not consider that the economic position in the Old Country has greatly improved so far, but a pleasing feature is the general feeling of optimism and the general confidence that things are coming right, although, there is nothing definite at the moment," stated Mr. Turner. The opinion was firmly held, he said, that no substantial improvement in the position could be expected while two major nations like Germany and the United States were m their present condition. "We- are hopeful that tariff adjustment as a result of Ottawa and the adverse exchange against the United States will have the effect of checking the carry over of American apples, -which previously have seriously affected our earlier shipments," he said Production in r.egard to the Continent is very obscure owing to the political situation, and as Australia is there as well as in England—our greatest competitor—the difference in the exchange rate is a most serious handicap to Hew Zealand. It practically gives Australia j a margin of 18d a case with which, to fight us.

"Scandinavia is a potential market, but it is also afiected by the exchange rate." ,• &