APPLE EXPORT
SHIPMENTS FROM OTAGO
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day
The .season's exporting of apples to the Old Country from Otago began with a shipment of 1000 cases 'loaded on the Coptic at Lyttelton on March 11. The next consignment was 8000 cases shipped at Port Chalmers on the Port Pirie, which left on March 17. The Somerset, which is loading at Bluff and is scheduled to get away on March 30, is to take 28,000 cases. The' bulk of this fruit was grown in the JEttrick, Roxburgh, and- Central Otago. districts. Cox's, Orange and Munro's Favourite are the leading varieties in these early shipments.
Some of the Cox's Orange apples were rejected for export,because in the dry weather they did not come' to full size, arid, others of fthe • samel variety failed to pass the inspector' because of black spot, which is said to be/the only skin blemish not' affecting soundness or flavour. Failure to mature properly in some districts is a serious matter for growers. One grower who expected to ship 20,00 eases can pack only 500. •.;. • : ... '.-• . •
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 24
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184APPLE EXPORT Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 24
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