FRUIT EXPORT TOTALS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 980, 24 May 1930, Page 11

FRUIT EXPORT TOTALS

DOMINION’S RECORD YEAR NEW ZEALANDER WINS PRIZE Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. Returns issued yesterday give the total fruit exports of the various provinces as follows: —Auckland, 103,000 cases; Hastings, 248,000; Poverty Bay, 22,000; Wairarapa, 21,000; Marlborough, 54,000; Nelson, 780,000; Canterbury, 1,000; total, 1,229,000. Local shipments at Nelson totalled 168,000 cases, apportioned as follow: Nelson, 36,500; Mapua, 62,000; Motueka, 69,500; the remainder was sent to Wellington for shipment. The figures given do not include shipments from Otago, which are not yet to hand. The other growers are outside the control. A cable has been received by the New Zealand Fruit Control Board, announcing that a New Zealand exhibit has won the first prize in the overseas section (Southern Hemisphere) at the Imperial Fruit Show in London. The class was open to growers, associations of growers, packing stations and exporters in Australia. New Zealand and South Africa.

STOLE FOR CHILDREN MAN SENT FOR SENTENCE Pi 'css Association NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. When Charles Edward Wharton, aged 22, was arrested fq.r theft of various small sums of money and goods from dwelling’s in the Tikorangi district, he admitted his guilt, and told a detective he had married a widow i with five children and, being unemj ployed, had stolen to feed the child- | ren. A statement to this effect was | made in the Police Court when acj cused appeared. He was committed ' \o the Supreme Court for sentence.