APPLES FOR EXPORT.
DUNEDIN, this day. Otago fruit growers are deeply inter* ested m and pleasantly surprised by some «je information imparted br Mr. H. M. Ford, of Glasgow. He told them, #£uwl nc *' % authority rf Glasgow was quite a mistake SilaV. Glasgow is a market to , which smaller apple* should be sent in preference to London. •Hie Scottish metropolis will take apples up*o 3in in diameter, v size that London has emphatically stated is too JfiTgft for it* market, *rhich prefers applet from 2in to 2%m. This announcement my have its influence in shaping and further developing New Zealand's axport trade in apples. Hitherto apples of' larger sites have not been favourably recclvod overseas, except in South Amerkn find ip that tparket buyers will have only the verv highest coloured varieties. muii\ nu Delicious, Democrat and Jonathan, wltilo such splendid varieties as nttil Cleopatra are not wanted.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 4
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