25 YEARS AGO
Nelson Apples In Demand (From “Tho Dominion,” March 9, 1915.) There has been an extraordinary demand for apples for export in the Nelson district. During the past few weeks buyers have literally chased one another through the district snapping up every available case. South America is exerting a strong claim on New Zealand apples and would absorb many more times as much fruit as is available. There has been a particularly heavy crop of apples this year, and growers have been receiving between 6/- and 7/- a case from Wellington. Buyers have also been operating from other parts of New Zealand, where the crops have been a failure, and to some extent have increased the demand, but South America is the greatest market. Since the market there has been opened up, fruit-growing in Nelson has progressed rapidly. During the past few years the new orchards planted represent 4500 acres, or 728,000 trees. It is estimated that there will be a million and a half cases for export in a few years’ time.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 137, 5 March 1940, Page 6
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