OUR FRUIT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 12 August 1925, Page 7

OUR FRUIT TRADE.

BETTER MARKETING NEEDED. N.S.W. COMPETITION. SYDNEY, August 11. i Mr. H. G. Such, sales organiser for the jXew South Wales Citrus Association, 1 who recently returned from 2Cew Zealand, stated he had come to the conclusion that the present system of marketing by individual growers and speculators resulted in considerably lower re- ! turns than could be obtained by proper regulation of supplies and the export only of high-class standardised fruit. He gave as an example one firm which secured 15 per cent more for its fruit ; than was secured by shipping to Xc«" Zealand under the old method. Mandarin orange growers had also secured substantially increased returns., The greatest competition Xew South Wales had to meet in Xew Zealand wa3 common oranges, largely grown in Cook Tslancls. The shipping and marketing, however, -were unsatisfactory. Mr. Such exneets the exnort to Xew Zealand this season to be from 50.000 to 75.000 cases of Xew South Wales oranges. He considers that to a ereat extent the safe arrival of orange? depends upon the skill and attention of the ships' staffs. He instanced two shipments under exactly the same conditions. Both were carried on deck, one covered, the other : uncovered. The former arrived in splen- i did condition: the latter badly soaked with water.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)