Fruit on way to U.K.
(N.Z.P.A- Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Mar. 28. Hie first New Zealand apples end pears of the new season—about 117,500 cartons—are expected to reach the British market on April
Mr N. Guymer, the manager in Europe for the New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board, said the shipment would arrive on board the Belgian Reefer and would include 96,000 cartons of apples, 21,000 cartons of pears, and 171 special bins of apples. He added that total sales of New Zealand fruit in Britain this northern spring and summer should be about 1.5 m cartons, each of a bushel, which would be very dose to last year’s' sales. By agreement with British fruitgrowers and with Australia, Canada, and South Africa, the New Zealand board sells fruit at Covent Garden only for a short period each year, usually beginning in April.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32568, 30 March 1971, Page 4
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