APPLE EXPORT BEGINS.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 33, 9 February 1933, Page 14

APPLE EXPORT BEGINS.

The apple export for 1933, which may teach, the .big total of a million and a half .boxes, began yesterday when the first shipment left Wellington in the Shaw, Bavill, and Albion liner Tamaroa. The '■ • ?_! ._^ Mch* is dne flt Southampton on 13th March, had on board 13,600 boxes for-that port. * * The next shipment will leave in the ■ .and. D liner Port WelUngton, which •will -^il from Wellington on. 17th February- with 37,000 boxes for .London, where' she is_due on Ist April. The Fruit Export Control Board has arranged shipping space allotments for 326,050 boies of &Pt>les_in m nihe-ships sailing up. to 23rd March. The list is as follows: . '. ■•'-.'_•■'■''■■'■■■■'■■• Sails. Due U.K. Boxes. Tamaroa ..... sth Feb. 13th Mch. 13,600 Tort -Wellington.l7th ; Feb. ,-Ist _Apl. 3TOOO Utlra ........ 23rd Feb. sth Apl. 20,650 £ k--\ r - . Bth Mch. 12th Apl. 46,500 Port Victor .. 10th Mch. 23rd Apl. 23,000 Botorua ...... 11th Mch. 19th Apl. 35,000 . _a„.,;•"•••• llth Mch; 24th Apl. 33,000 Kangitikl ...j. irth Mch. 19th Apl. 80,300 Tekoa ....... 23rd Mch.. Ist May 37,000 Total ........;.:............. 326,050 !_he Akaroa and Kangitiki will load at .Auckland and Wellington. -•■'.' The Tekoa -jrill load-20,000 boxes at Nelson and 27,000" at .Wellington' for West of Britain .ports. The Piako's shipment will go to ■Manchester. ' The Akaroa 'will land ■• her shipment at Southampton, the others •being for London.