EXPORT OF FRUIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 889, 5 February 1930, Page 10

EXPORT OF FRUIT

RECORD YEAR LIKELY BIG SHIPPING BOOKINGS From Our Resident Reporter ■WELLINGTON, Today. Judging from the extent, of the booki lgs by growers of shipping space with ilie New Zealand Fruit Control Board the total fruit exports from the Dominion this season should constitute a new record. The bookings are as follow:—Auckland. 96.025 cases; Poverty Bay, 21,160; Hastings, 242,355: Wairarapa. 19.220; Nelson. 742,620: Marlborough, 50,200; Ganfcrbury, 900; total, 1,172,510. This total includes 1.116,748 cases of apples and 55.762 cases of pears. The bulk of the pears, 34,865 cases, have been booked by Hastings growers, and increased bookings have been made from Nelson. Of the apples, the bookings show heavy increases in Jonathans, amounting to 76,000 cases; Stunners. 66,000 cases: and Delicious, 54,000 cases. There are increases in all varieties except Stayman’s Winesaps and London Pippins, which are practically the same as last year. There is a probability that the total of 1,172.510 cases will be brought up to at least 1,250,000 cases by t.dditional shipments from Nelson and Poverty Bay. The Nelson exports this year will probably exceed 750,000 cases. In addition to the bookings under the Control Board, it is expected that the Otago growers, who are outs:.de “control,” will provide from 80.000 to 100.000 cases of fruit for shipment overseas. The 192 S season’s exports, which constitute the present record, totalled 1.019.137 cases of apples and pears, including 80,00') from Otago. Last year's shipments were 989,709 cases, including 57.900 from Otago. This year’s exports of apples will start with a shipment of 9,000 cases for London in the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Tainui. wliic.i is to sail from Wellington on February 12. Already several hundred cases have arrived in cool s tore at Wellington, and about 1.400 * ases of Gravensteins are being railed Uom Auckland this week.