FRUIT EXPORT TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 11

FRUIT EXPORT TRADE

PRICES SATISFACTORY

DECREASE IN SHIPMENTS

The Fruit' Board reports that shipments of apples and pears this season show a substantial decrease on those of last season. The total distribution for export amounted to 898,533. cases of apples and 42,192 cases of pears, and the ■ fruit was shipped to a . wide, range of countries.' The quantities furnished by various provincial districts vary and the effect of the disastrousMrosts .in the Hawke's Bay district arc shown in returns tabulated hereunder: — . laao. 1037. ' . Anplcs. l'ears. Apples, rears. Casi-s. Cases. Cases. Cases. Auckland ... 51,2110 4,17-1 G2.017 4,8-12 l'oveity Bay . 21 71S (i.B 2,089 — Hawkc's Bay 150..519 4fi,1!10 7,077 1,038 Wnlrarapa ... . 10,350 1.183 1-1,098 131 Mai-Hiorousli . 47,137 1.3.69 77,60S 580 Nelson . 7;SS,(MI 45,53!1 573,733 27,1135 Canterbury .. 28.53!)- 3,(18-1 13.023 720 Otaso ....... 01.070. 7.318 117,010. 0,227 Totals .. -1,113,590-,113,031 001,082 42,416 The destinations of exported -fruit are as follows:—Halifax, Nova Scotia, 71,330 cases of apples; Cristobal, Panama Zone, 200 cases; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15,000; Santos, ■ Brazil, 10,000;Hamburg, 24,628 cases apples and 633 cases- pears; Hook of Holland, 48,121 cases apples; Singapore, 1001; Batavia. 1155; Saigon, French Indo-China, 50; Manila, 1003; Hong Kong, 766; Shanghai, 980; Sweden, 41,105 cases apples and 6087 cases pears. Shipments of- apples to the United Kingdom were as follows:—London, 398,262 and 28,879 cases pears; Southampton, 36,973 and 366 cases pears;. Avonmouth, 9678 cases apples; Glasgow, 28,809; Manchester, 27,739; Liverpool, 33.973. The above totals 750.823 cases of apples and 35,965 cases . of pears, . . . In addition1 to these shipments Otago contributed 100 cases of apples to Calcutta, 22,098 to Liverpool, and 124,912 .and 6227 cases of pears to London: EXCELLENT QUALITY. The Fruit Board has been notified, from London that. the.condition of ,the fruit ,on arrival .was good, with high colour and of excellent quality, and the London manager reports that the fruit has -turned out better than- he has seen for many years. The High Commissioner's cabled information shows that the average prices were most ■ satisfactory, and, judging from .the market reports, taken in conjunction with reports of the mar- ■ kets on arrival, it looks as if the average price for the season will be at least equal to the Government guarantee.

!i This year's guarantee will give the grower compensation for production as was originally intended. An average return of 10s 6d (New-Zealand currency) per case c.i.f. New Zealand should mean .a return to the grower to cover, cost' of. production and-packing 5s 3d per case, free on board or free on rail. ' ' ' "