DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 71, 16 November 1912, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

HAWKE’S BAY FRUIT

(Per Press Association.)

Hastings, November 15

Fruit in Hawke’s Bay this year will bo very plentiful. In the course of an interview to-day, Mr Campbell, Government orchard instructor at Hastings, said that tho frost danger was now past. The peach, nectarine and apricot crops would bo far in excess of any previous year. There was a fair average show of apples, but considerably lighter than last year. Pears and plums were above the .average. Owing to the quantity of young fruit on peach and nectarine trees it was important that growers should thin out extensively. In all probability there would be a glutted market in the flush of tho season, and competition would be so keen that nothmg but the best quality of fruit would realise a satisfactory price. Inferior fruit would scarcely pay for handling. The output would be so great that unless thinning out was undertaken at. once much of the fruit would fail to find a market.