APPLES IN PLENTY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 12

APPLES IN PLENTY

HEAVY SHIPMENTS, LOW PRICES Australian Press Association. LONDON, 19th May. The demand for apples continues satisfactory, but importers find it. impossible to realise higher . prices, .as supplies continue to bo heavy, arrivals from Australia >and New Zealand aggregating nearly 300,000 eases weekly. The condition of the fruit generally has been good, but one or two cargoes have arrived in a very advanced state and have consequently been sold at low prices. I'cai's are meeting with an excellent demand. As Australia and New»Zealand have the market practically to themselves they are fetching high prices. ' The continuance of the cold spell on the Continent! makes it certain that the early French cherry crop will be small. Indeed, our supplies of foreign cherries will be much below the usual. The Ministry of Agriculture, with the object "of preventing the introduction ofthe cherry fly, has prohibited the impor-. tatiou of foreign cherries from the South of France after 6th June, from Central France after 12th June, and from Northern France after 21st June. All Italian cherries are prohibited after 10th June. Thus we shall not have the competition of cheap cherries wherewith our markets are usually glutted during Juno and the first halt' of July. The British strawberry crop1 has been affected to some extent by frost, but a good yield is anticipated. The steamer Nestors' apples have arrived at Liverpool. South. Australian Jonathans made 10s 3d to 13s 3d a case; Clcopatras, 13s to 14s; Dunns, 10s to 13s. Victorian Jonathans, 10s to 125.;- Homes, lls to 14s; Cleopatras, 12s Gd to ICs; Dunns, 12s to 14s 6d. LONDON, 19th May. The Port Hunter's New Zealand apples were sold as follow: —Dunn's, 12s to 13s per case; Cox's Orange Pippins, 15s to 18s; Jonathans, 12s to 14s; Delicious, lls. to 12s 6d; London Pippins, 12s to 13s. The Ashphalion's, Port Brisbane's, and Hamburg's Victorian apples sold at: Cleopatras and 'Dunns, 12s to 16s Cd; Munros, 12s to 15s 3d; Jonathans, 10s to 13s 9d; London Pippins, lls to 13s. The Berwickshire's Tasmariian apples sold at: Stunners, 10s to lls; Cleopatras, 10s to 10s Cd; Dunns, fis Cd to lls; Jonathans, 7s 6d to 9s 6d; Cox's Orange Pippins, 8s to Ps Cd.