FRUIT EXPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2644, 22 June 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

FRUIT EXPORT.

In onr supplement, of June 2, we gave the particulars of a shipment of apples to England, wo now continue the subject g-i viritr the results of shipmeuts to Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney. Account sales of 12 cases of apples Bold at Sydney by order of tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, April, ISS9. £. f. d. 10 oases apples> at 7s per case... 3 10 0 2 ~ bad and ullaged I' 2 cases. CHARGES. £. 8. d. Exchange 1 0 Customs entry, 2s 6d; wharfage, U ... 3 G Freight, Auckland to Sydney .. IS 0 Insurance ... ... ... 10 Receiving, weighing, cartage, etc _ 1 0 Sorting and repacking... ... 3 6 Commission, brokerage and guarantee, 5 per cent. ... 3 0 1 11 6 Net proceeds 1 18 6 It will be seen from the abovo that if wo add rail charges Waikato to Auckland say 7s anrj cost of cases 7s, the total charges per case reaches nearly to 4s. Extract From Letter From Sydney Office. In re 12 cases apples c.h. 5539 ex " Manapouri" 2nd inst, we have to report that they arrived in irregular sized packing canes), tome of tho eases ullaged and part of the fruit eaten by rats or other vermin ; the rest of the fruit arrived in very good order, and out of the 12 ca a es we have filled 9 cases of what is known as Hobart bus: apple oases with the apples that are at all gond. In connection with this shipment, wo have to make the following notes as a guide to growers and shippers, and with the hope that successful shipments may be made from New Zealand.

If from Tasmania thousands of cases are profitably and successfully shipped every year, why not also from New Zealand. You will observe that some 7iooo cases of apples were recently sent in one steamer alone from Tasmania to England,

1. The four kinds of apples sent in the 12 cases arc all good kinds for selling here if th«y arrive in good condition.

•2. But ail being soft kinds of apples the difficulty will be to ensure their arriving here and keeping after arrival in good order.

I!. The Bismarck and King of Pippins will sell best on account of their red color, but the Claygate's and Golden Russet being tougher apples will carry and keep best and therefore will probably pay best. 4. These kind of apples should be plucked and shipped when just barely ripe ; they will ripen on the road and arrive here in just tit condition for telling. 5. The si/.e case should be all of a uniform si/.e of one bushel case. If possible a Hobart one bus: paling case or similar. G. A case should contain apples all of a size, not like chose sent, where we find very large apples and very small ones, the consequence would be that if put in the market in this condition they would sell as all small apples. 7. Medium sized apples are the best to pay and carry, but any size will do as long as not very small apples, and as stated nil of a size in a case. Small Apples _ , n . . ... ... _; Li p- — S. This sketch will Larger gj vc an j c ] ea j or sor ti n g _2'll- apples to assist the eye and so on as to size, it is simply a number of trough? or shoots of different sizes fixed on a wide board, the size of each shoot to bo determined by the size of apples in neighbourhood. 9. Cases should have partitions in the middle to help timbers to hold better together, and of Hobart hard wood, pilfe-ers will not be able to draw nails so easily as with New Zealand soft woods.

10. We have left tho most important question of all till last; the kind of apples and prices. Cannot you produce in New Zealand apples like the 'fasmanian Scarlet Pearmains, a tough, null, sweet eating apple which will keep here for weeks and months after arrival. It is a bright red and yellow colour, tin New Zealand King of Pippins being very much like it in appearance, only the King of Pippins is a very soft and watery apple by comparison.

11. The Tasmanian apples are landed here from Gs to 10s a case, and a large trade is done. Above prices may vary according to unusual circumstances for either good or evil, but the above may be reckoned on.

12. We should have mentioned earlier that some of the apples in the 12 cases showed signs of hail damage, others pierced by a grub, &c. These sort of things must be avoided. To compete against the Tasmanian apples, a good uniform article must be sent here, and all expenses of eases, freight, &c, cut down so as to leave a margin of profit. The apples will return about six ((i) shillings a case. Market price for best Hobart at present, being about 7s and Ss a case wholesale. MeLNOURNE. Account Sales ov Twelve Casks oi' Apples sold at Melbourne by order of the Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), Hamilton, £ s. d. o oases of apples at Gs (id .., 1 12 fi 4 cases of apnlos at ."is (hi ...12 0 >j case of apples at 2s 61 ... 0 2 G 2A cases of apples, lost re-packing Total 2 17 0 CllAßtiliS. £ s. d. To freight and charges 1 1 G Duty 0 12 0 ~ Commission at 5 per cent. ... 0 3 0 1 16 6 Net proceeds 1 0 6 Adding rail charges, Waikato to Auckland, 7s, and cost of cases, 7s, tho total charge per case reaches 4s Gd. Extract from Melbourne Lettish. No. I—Ribston Pippins (I cise). Been kept too long, dry, mealy, and out of condition. Should have been marketed at least six weeks earlier. Nos. 2 and 4—King of Pippins. Same remarks apply. Nos. a and 6—Golden Russet. Firm good quality, but very deficient in colour, not taking in appearance, dingy. Nos. 7 and 9—Claygate. Not a good selling- apple. Very like Cornish Gilliflower, in bad condition. Nos. 10 and 12—Bismarck. Good. Far the best in tho consignment, but spooky. If sound would sell well at about 7s per case. Tho packages aro not suitablo with the exeoption of Nos. 5 and G, and the fruit very slackly packed. Account Sales op Fruit, Shipped per Wairarapa to W. Frasor Martin, Sydney, ISSO. By 17 cases Fruit s. d. s. d. No. 1, apples 5 6,, 5 G „ 2, 3 and 17 5 9 „ 17 3 „ 4, 5 and 16 5 9 „ 17 3 ~ 5 6 0,, 6 9 „ 7 4 6 „ -1 G ~ 8, 0 o 9 ~116 „ 10, 11 7 3 „ 14 6 „ 12 4 0,, 4 0 ~ 13 ... 5 !) „ ii 0 „ 14, 15, pears ... 2 3 „ 4 G £4 11 6 CHARGES. £. 8. d. To commission and guarantee... 0 4 G Freight and wharfage ... ... 1 o 11 E.itry U.M. Custons 0 2 (! £1 12 11 Net proceeds 2 18 7 Duplicate List Case-; Fruit from Waikato and how disposed of. Per case. Nos. s. d.. 1 ~, Lord Lounox, at 5 0

2 317 ... G. Calville, at 5 0 4 51G ... Celim Pippin at 5 9 G ... Bismarck, :it 6 0 7 ... Blue Pcarmain, at 4 6 8 9 ... Alfristou, at 5 S 10 11 ... Ribston, fit 7 3 la ... Winter Pea eh (sent Home, offered 3/G) 4 0 13 ... Beauty of Kent 5 9 11 I j ... I'uarrt (too ripe) 2 3 Herewith is list of prices I obtained for the fruit. I did not cable you, for I did not think the prices I got, or could get. justified my doing' so. Anil again, I would require to advi.se you of the state of our market for fruit, and as to the better sort to send that command bettor sale here. The Kibstons sell best, and iu any quantities, according to market price, ruling (of course prices fluctuates according to supplies) next to them Bismaroks, Uelini Pippin, and Colvilles. The Blue Peruiain always, or at present, are dull of sale. But let them always be a medium size, and not too ripe when packed. The large or too ripe apple won't do, in proof of which I was only offered 3s (id for No. 12, Winter Peach, and I sent it Home to Mr Martin at 4s. No particular change in our other markets except that bran is up to Is 2d, pollard Is 3d. Oaten hay and chaff going to be scarce this year, Potatoes are down to £o 10s, onions £13, and scarce. A large quantity of fruit in Tasmania this year; 14,000 cases expected in next week, 1-nt northern orders will exhaust moat of them. Prices likely to keep the dame till cold weather comes in.—lam, &"-, W. fc\ Martin.