Transition To Trays For Export Apples
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, January 22. The New Zealand Apple and Pear Board expects that the 1968 season will see the transition to tray-packs in both cartons and wooden containers completed for apples.
These containers will be used for export packing in future. The board also reported that in spite of unseasonable weather in early spring, the estimates of the New Zealand crop for 1968 at this early stage was 4.8 million cases of apples and 700,000 cases of pears. New Zealand apple supplies to Europe in the 1967 season, affected by drought
conditions, were about a quarter less than in 1966. Supplies to Britain dropped by almost 250,000 cases to 1,480,000 cases and to West Germany from 282,000 cases to 92,000 cases. New Zealand apple exports to Belgium also declined—from 131,000 cases in 1966, to 50,000 cases last year. There was an increase In supplies to Norway from 24,000 cases to 52,000 cases.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31584, 23 January 1968, Page 22
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