LARGE SIZE APPLES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 75, 30 March 1933, Page 6

LARGE SIZE APPLES

MARKETING DIFFICULTY

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

1 NELSON, March 20. Inability to find markets for apples exceeding 2% inches in diameter will have tho eilect of drastically reducing the total export from the Tasuian district for 1933. No sales of large sizes have been made for the Continent of Europe, and under the contract arranged with a firm in the United Kingdom not more than 15 per cent, of any grower's crop may exceed 2-ji inches in diameter. Stunners, the lasman district's leading cooking variety, are a light crop this season, and consequently larger thau usual, and under existing conditions size 125 (254 inches) and all larger sizes will be retained in New Zealand. The effect will be to glut the local markets beyond hope of recovery for several months, to deprive the purchasers in England of most of the more popular sizes in cooking apples, seriously curtail export and reduce incomes, and prevent many growers from benefiting by the present, fayo-ruble .exchange position. Representations have been made to the Control Board to reconsider the position, aiiu the following reply 1w.3 been made by the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation: "Requests have been received from various quarters for permission to exceed the 15 per cent, .restriction on the export of apples to the United Kingdom and the Continent in the A size pools. In view of-adverse overseas reports regarding the prospects for the sale of the larger sizes, these requests cannot be -granted, and the la per cent, restriction must be enforced. With a view to improving the average returns for the A size Stunner pools to the United Kingdom and the Continent, fji-owors in submitting for export the quantity of A sizes allotted are recommended to couponliate on the 123 pack as far ns possible."