APPLE EXPORT TRADE

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14343, 1 May 1912, Page 10

APPLE EXPORT TRADE

(PREaS ASSOCIATION IKLEOKiM.) WELLINGTON; April 30. Cabled information has just been received by the Prime Minister (tho Hon. T. Mackenzie) that tho shipment of apples by the Kaipara from New Zealand, consisting of 5000 cases, has arrived in London in excellent condition. This will be glad news for the exporters and growers of fruit in New Zealand. This is tho third shipment which the Government has "fathered," so to speak. In the past a bonus of Id per lb was oifcred, but in this instance a new plan was tried. The Government offered the officers of the Kaipara a bonus of £50 if tho fruit arrived in good coudition. In referring to tho matter to-day, the Prime Minister said that at the present time there were orders in New Zealand for 20,000 cases of applee for the Argentine, and tho prospective buyers were prepared to pay higher rates than those ruling for Tasmanian fruit If this order could bo completed, it would moan a great deal for tho growing fruit trade of New Zealand, because no cold storage was required on the trip to the Argentine. Mr Mackenzie stated that he was carefully watching the South American fruit market, and that he was in touch with some men there who could place our fruit on good terms with consumers. As a result of these enquiries and orders a new development in tho Government fruit farms is foreshadowed.