APPLE SUPPLIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 250, 15 July 1908, Page 3

APPLE SUPPLIES.

EXCELLENT VALUES RULING. ' ■ •'■ . ' . WILL TASMANIAN ARRIVALS REDUCE PRICES? •/This is a splendid season for apple producers. Ahd,-. indeed,, it seems likely that . tho good tunes will continue, for some years to,come; The Orchard Pests Act.may, perhaps, -have caused considerable sacrifice of diseased fruit; but growors have had no occasion to complain of: tho prices of the'remainder. Prices :have been exceedingly and ■ consistently good , practically throughout the season; Tnero is no prospect of a fall,'but,- . iif anything, a good' likelihood-of, perhaps, a slight improvement. This may -not bo the caso five years henco, when tho much-talked-, of new fifty-acre or hundred ; acro apple or-' ■ chards begin to- shod -their-abundant harvests .•v upon the Wellington auctions rooms , off. .- Courtenay Place, but, >at all events, that . time is not yet-,', And, ■ after- all,' we are learning to oat-more apples every-year'that the world lives.- -Apples- are not a 1 perishable commodity, and) within reason, Welling-, . ton people, at least'-seem .willing, to buy all that, comes - along, provided the quality is . good. ' Quality!tells very, considerably in.the ■/ cities,';andi'/go'od'apples are 'just as easy 'to-' '. grow, asr. bad • ones.! - There are apples in Wellington, shops ;,tn-d.".y. selling, at 6d. a v pound,' while' rubbishy--apples -in the,-samo window.' at.apenny, a pound seem.to wait in- vain for purchasers; Sixpence,, howflyer,' is"not an -average price.Threepence or . fourpence is Hearer--the vimark. But < at- this' figure-- apples . pay well ,to grow, - or the growers' arfe,'.not;;gettiiig theirs fair- 'share 'of .. the spoil t ■ , 'imported-.- apples foil yesterday from'a-, penny a: pound-to. a halfpenny. - This fact might have 1 oeeiv expected ;to fore-shadow-heavy, arrivals, from Tasmania.'. But apparently-'there ;isjvno danger*of ..dumping f rop 4hat-; quarter;; i•; :Tho -;Augtral ian < prices', are}top of Tasmanian 'supplies ' in'. v oiir . direction. 'A: small . . lotiofi.about 200. cases 1 last 'week;:.was. slightly ■ aff^ctedViwith- black/spot, 1 and, being refused ; v a landing, 1 was,shipped 1 back. Tho local prices. I .. th'erefor'aare'n'ptlikely- to rccede" for the rest of this year. 'v-'i'-i