APPLE EXPORT.
MILLION CASES FOR HOME. I FIRST SHIPMENT LOADED. (By Telegraph.— Special to "Star.' - ) WELLINGTON, this day. The Port Hobart finished loading yesterday and will carry the first of the #eason's exportable apples. 11.612 cases. It is anticipated about 1.u00.000 case* or apples will be exported this season, laat years total being 1.0J9.000 cases. The re|>ort of the Horticultural Division of the Department of Agriculture regarding orchard conditions states:— .. „ Auckland: Early varieties light. other* good average crop. Thames and Bay of Plen.v: A medium crop of mow I£?*g** at Thames, but a U&**j*f n '%'** ®* y of Plentv Wafkato: Picking has commence I on early varieties: all varieties poking rerr well : little black spot. The following *p«ce allotments are announcedl by rhe Fruit Kxport Control B °f^rt > Carolinc. 13.000 cases; Port Alma. •>o.->OO cases: Hororata. 38.000 cases: Port Melbourne. 2<>.*>Oft cases ; lenie. 33.000 ! - llerminiu>. .11 ..■»©«■ cases; Port Kremantle. »2.60rt <ases: Pnkeha. :KMOO case*: Zealandic. 25.730 ca««; Westmoreland, 50000 cases; Coptic. 57.3-*.O cases: Mataroa .16..V.0 cases: Middlesex. 106.000 cases: lUmutaka, 30,000 cases; Cornwall, 31.000 cases.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 40, 16 February 1929, Page 11
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174APPLE EXPORT. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 40, 16 February 1929, Page 11
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