APPLES FOR EXPORT
AUCKLAND SHIPMENTS Cabled prices re the Auckland shipment of apples on the Tainui sold on the London market ranged, according to advice received by Mr. F. Firth, j Auckland member of the New' Zealand Fruit Control Board, from 11s 6d to 13s for Gravensteins, 13s to 14s for Worcesters and Alfristorfs. Appreciable quantities are now being shipped, Auckland’s shipments to date being:—Tainui, for England, 232 cases; Rangitane, for England, 1,769 cases; Tamaroa, for England, 2,046 cases; Matakana, for England, 5,204 cases; Otaki, for Rio de Janeiro, 95 crates of pears; Raranga, for South America, 8,725 cases. The Niagara on Monday takes 4,000 cases of a consignment of fruit for British Columbia to be discharged at Victoria and Vancouver. The next steamer to load at Auckland is the Pakeha, with 14,000 oases for the United Kingdom and 10,000 cases for Rotterdam. It is intended that all available peajrs should go forward by this steamer, and every effort is being made to make pears available for this shipment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 11
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169APPLES FOR EXPORT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 11
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