FRUITGROWING.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3135, 18 September 1922, Page 5

FRUITGROWING.

There were about fifteen fruitgrowers present at the meeting of the Central Otago Fruitgrowers Association, held in the Earnscleugh School on Saturday evening. Mr Bennetts, of Roxburgh, was present and addressed them on the matter of the export of fruit for next season- Mr Bennetts, who is a member of the Export Committee was present at the recent meeting of the Committee held in Wellington- 'ihe Committee had waited on the Minister of Agriculture on the question of export subsidy, and had been successful in getting the Government to reconsider its decision on the cancelling of the subsidy. The Committee was making enquiries into the possibility of securing a market for New Zealand apples in South America. The South American market would take big apples which the English market did not want, moreover no cool storage would be necessary to ship apples to South America. The result of the committee’s enquiries would be made known later. The annual meeting of the Fruitgrowers Co-op- takes place at Roxburgh on the 28th inst- A return of the year’s business shows satisfactory progress. Following are the figures for half cases — iyiy-20 1920-21 iy2i-2 Total markets 184 465 243,144 3i59 f ’ 2 Factory totals 30,272 31,834 26 S7S Grand totals 214,737 274,978 342840

Comparative Table all Markets Pears 9747 11,601 1574k Apples 45-553 90,076 91705 Peaches 4 1 9° 7 48,805 60640 Apricots 35.032 44,260 74073 Tomatoes Li.975 29.457 22903 Quinces 4 3 2 61 2 1708 Plums 12-383 17.897 22149 Nectarines 2 94 3 5*334 5783 Gooseberries 734 617 699 Cherries 3 6 3' 377 1 341 6 Strawberries 1588 1122 1560 Currants 3°7 333 197 Rasps 220 110 130 Loganberries — 100 200 Grapes 504 418 558 Cucumbers i34 96 513 Oranges 6040 5106 7968 Bananas 6488 5900 4918 Lemons 738 742 60o Pines 160 142 43 6 Passion 5 2 i $ 6