APPLE SHIPMENTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18309, 17 February 1925, Page 8

APPLE SHIPMENTS.

MARKET PROSPECTS GOOD. (special to "the PHSSS.") WELLINGTON, February 16, The first shipment of-New Zealand apples to go overseas this season will be loaded by the liner "Rotorua ■ on Wednesday or Thursday..; It .will consist of 6500 cases of Worcesters,. Permains, Cox's Orange, and other early varieties. The Worcesters will be the first to go overseas for some years, owing to a stowage difficulty which ha 3 prevented their shipment, and about 1500 to 2000 cases of them will be included in the total. At Nelson, in about a fortnight, the first experiene of lightering fruit out to a vessel in the Bay will be-gained. The Jiner Waimana, allotted 17,000 cases of apples, will be loaded with Cox's Orange, Dunn's, and the first pickings of Jonathans, which will be sent from the shore in auxiliary scows. Shipments to South America also should soon commence to go forward, but they will leave under different conditions from those of last year. - The report of Mr W. Rice (Government Orchard Instructor and Apple Shippers' representative), who visited South America to investigate the market possibilities, was strongly against apples being shipped except in a cooling chamber. In the past the fruit has. gone forward in ordinary cargo space. vShippers now have agreed that apples should be sent in refrigerated space and the Overseas' Shipowners' Committee has promised to give spaoe if possible. The market prospects in South America. according to a cablegram received by the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation, are excellent, and shippers may look forward to fair prices. This is the advice of Messrs More and Co., of Monte Video. The present prospects on the English market are stated to be really good, and stocks held thig year, are very much lower than they were last, being down fully 35 per cent. This is due to the very short crop in America and Canada. These countries will be off the market by the time that the New Zealand shipments arrive, and for the first time in three years Australia and New Zealand will have the market to' themselves. As the Australian crop this year is not very good owing to various diseases, provided that the Dominion cargoes ar-. rive Home in good ondition, shippers should benefit considerably.

THE SEARCH FOR OIL.

i ENORMOUS SUMS SPENT

(SPECIAL TO "THE PMSS.")

AUCKLAND, February 16.

Enormous sums are being spent in

various parts of the world in the search for oil in order to keep pace with the demand, and the money invested in

enterprises' of this kind in New Zea- ' land up to the present' time may be regsyded as legitimate prospecting. This at anjrrate is the opinion of Sir Robert Waley Cohen, one of the leading figures in the British Imperial Oii Company., who is at present on a short visit to !New'Zealand. Discussing

the prospect of finding oil in commercial quantities in . New' Zealand, Sir Robert said 'to-night that while he was not prepared to make a statement. oJt that point,. : he could say his company was always ready to engage in the search for oil wherever the conditions : were such as to warrant the effort. He mentioned that the company %ad already been concerned in two such experiments in Nejr Zealand, one of which had involved the sinking of- a well to a depth of. 3500 feet, but -yvith- . out, success. In the oil business, howt ever, it was not wise to. become dis- ■ couraged too soon.' He was always 1 fond of remembering that : his company spent £1,600,000 in Borneo'before business began to materialise, and they were now able to supply New. Zealand from the 'East Indies, , which was at * present the nearest large oilfield. It - had also fallen to the lot of the com-

. pany to develop the largest oilfield within the British Empire with the ; exception of that inTJurneo. This was the Miri; field, m Sarawak, from which a large part or the supplies for New Zealand were now drawn* "If the British Imperial Oil Company invests large sums in creating an efficient distributing system in New "Zealand," added Sir "Robert, "its greatest interest would be-to see oil discovered in New Zealand so that the organ- : isation might be supplied in the cheapest possible way. That is why it will always be a matter of €se greatest possible inforesttons to hear of any pos-i aibility. of creating an oil producing in- '■ dustry in this country,"

! ! amßerley market. The Amberloy *nark«t wag held yesterday, when the yarding comprised 2000 fat lambs, 200. ewes, and 75 wethers, the store .pens holding 600 iambs , and ewes. Lambs realised ruling rates. The following sales were ■ made:— "' ,r ' - Fat Jianahs—W. L. Eedmayne, 11 at 38s, 29 at 3755 d; J. Bodgers, 23 at 48s, 39 at ■ 40s 2d; McLeah Bros., 36 at 40s 9d, 35 at 45a Bd, 19J> at. 42s 2d; N. Davis, 12 at 38a lOd; BeloHer .Bros., 28 at 87s 6d; .D. J. Doak, 6 aj 408J W. H. Hale, 66 at 42s 9d; . J.. £. Kussell, SO at 465; Broomfield Estate, 275 at 425, 64 at 395; Bramdean, 157 at 38s ! 4d, 64 at'42s 2d; McAdam Bros.,' 100' at 44a • fid;' A. Payne, 19 at 445, 24 at 39s 13; Mrs O'Brien, 27 at 435; W. A. Paterson, 8 at' 40s 8d; H. Hurley, 20 at 455-7 d, 46 at 41s 7d; W. Allison; SB at 41s 7d; A; J. Blakely, 80 at 40s, 12 at 395; W.- fl. Hapgood, 10 at 455, 24 at 40s 7d; A. Hislop, 10 at 40s ' 9d; H. H. Busch, 14. at 40a.. Wethers—F, M»y,.31 at 365. 3d; A. Payne, at 37s 6d; Mrs O'Brien, 4 at 41s; D. J. Doak, 15 at 37s 4d; H. H. McLean, 5 ■ at 88s.. . • . : v : '■' I: "

Ewes—Beloher Bros:, 9 at 28s 6d; N; Davis, 9 at 27a 8d; S. D. Boyce, 7 at 31a 7d; Girls' College, 26 at 40s; A. J. 331akely, 24 .at" 31s,- 6 at-80s 3d;E.A. Payne, 10 at : 83a' id; VMcAdam .Bros.; 4 at 82s; • Mrs! • O'Brien, 8 a;t 31s 6d; H. Hurley, 27 at 33aJ. Bodgera, 5 it'3Bs lOd; W. Hapgood, " 10 at 30s 7d; J. Russell, 35 at 32s Tod.

. AUSTRALIAN LAMB. A (PBE93, ASSOOUTIOK VKLXaXAu!) WELLINGTON, February 16. - The. New Zealand Meat Producers' Board • taa received a cablegram from its iepresentative in Australia advising that 13,736 . carcases-of-lam]) were exported irom Aus- ' tralia the fortnight ended February 13th.

SYDNEY WOOL SALE. • (KT ciBLX—PBXSS ASSOCIATION—COpraiGKT) : (AUBTBALIAS AXD *.Z. CABLX ASBOCIATIO*.)< (Beceived February 17th, 1 a.m.) SYDNEY,' February 16. « '- 4 The wool sales to-day were more animated - than recent sales, -values ruling firm at the ' lower levels established iasi week. «re»sy marino sold'at up to 38Jd per lh.