FARMING & COMMERCIAL
SALE OF NEW ZEALAND FRUIT IN SAN FRANCISCO ■ JIEPORT ON A FURTHER SHIPMENT. • Less til all a fortnight ago the Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce published a report wliicli it had received on a shipment of fruit sent to San Francisco in February last, for display at the Panama Pacific Exposition. The results proved anything but eucouragiug, a good deal of the fruit having arrived at San Francisco in an unsatisfactory oondition. A cablegram has since been received by the (Department from the New Zealand Commissioner to the Exposition in regard to a further shipment which was : 'dispatched by the s.s. Maiama cn April I'. The consignment consisted of a total of 63 cases, which had been contributed by various fruit-growers' as- ■ ncciations throughout the Dominion. Out of t'his number, six cases arrived in a condition unsuitable for marketing. The balance of 57 cases were offered for sale by auction, and the gross proceeds totalled 110 dollars. 'Winter xielis" pears had the 'honour of capturing the highest price of 3.70 dollars per caso. which is equivalent to about 15s. - 7d. "Winter Colo" pears netted 3 dollars per oaso, jyjjJi ''Jonathan" apples 2 dollars. The Commissioner adds in his cablegram that these varieties of fruit are the most suitable for tho Californian market.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2472, 27 May 1915, Page 8
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