EXPORTED FRUIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 50, 28 February 1923, Page 13

EXPORTED FRUIT.

THE FIRST CONSIGNMENT.

'(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELIJNGTON, Tuesday. The first shipment of this season's SS**-*^ I *™* urn «» se8 ' raa,n 'y jrom the >.elson district, was despatched "J tn e Jtemuera to-day. The next ship*s&"** CaS " '''" g ° by th " Mr. R. Waters, who has been carrying « investigations here, has received t*« < "Mtion of the Minister of Agriculture HJ_*T d t0 Au » t ''alia to meet a party f, .S 1 *" Mi -nt»te who have arrived WiQWhidp, at the instance of tho Iff* I**1 ** companies, the growers, and *_* «*P» rtn w>ts of Agriculture in r*-*._ he * d of the P arty is **• E - Ezer wthths, of the National Research Cambridge, the other m~Wtt being Messrs. A. J. Smith, E. G. w«ob, and E. A. Griffiths. Their instigations will deal principally with «« ** eaTt " '"'hieh recently seriously Ti.!_ d ,>ar g oes of apples shipped on the j*rs Bay Port Nicholson, and N'ort "invbeyiand. Thiß party wiU traV g_ j,^ iriii Ships carrvin S apple cargoes, and r! v endeavour, by setting up instruct? m the vessels and studying the conditions generally, to ascertain the Reason of the trouble. The party will not visit New Zealand, : * * V Zealand W >U receive a full report of their investigations.