APPLE AND PEAR SEASON
BELOW AVERAGE CROP EXPECTED
EXPORT SHIPMENTS TO BE CURTAILED
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 23.
The Dominion’s crop of apples and pears would be below average this year, said the chairman of the New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board (Mr J. H. Parker) on Saturday
It was expected that the board would handle about 700,000 cases fewer than last year, mainly because of the disastrous frost in Hawke’s Bay on October 15, he said. The board had arranged for adequate supplies to be available for the New Zealand market and. to do this, export quantities had been substantially curtailed. Though small quantities of the early varieties had been marketed, it was only now that supplies of apples were becoming readily available, said Mr Parker. The first main variety, Gravenstein, was now reaching maturity, and increasing quantities could be expected in the next week or 10 days.
This variety was grown mainly in the North Island and Nelson, said Mr Parker, but arrangements were being made for distribution to all parts of the Dominion. To ensure that the New Zealand consumer would have ample supplies from the start of the season, the board had decided that no Gravenstein apples would be exported this year.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27565, 24 January 1955, Page 8
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