EXPORT APPLE TRADE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 2

EXPORT APPLE TRADE.

TASMANIA'S HEAVY SHIPMENTS. When it was predicted a few jrears ago that Tasmania's annual export' of fruit would amount to a million cases, or 40^000,000 bushels, th© statement was received with an incredulous shake of the' head and a laconic "Can't be done." However, the shipments this season (concluding .with the Blue Anchor liner Geelong, due at Hobart to-day for loading), will amount to roughly, 90b,000 bushel cases of 401b average per case. Dp to 20th April 538,477 cases had been sent away to other than intercolonial markets, an increase of 130,805 cases on this season compared with last. Tho total quantity exported for tho whole of last season waa 578,839 cases. Shipments of fruit from Hobart to Australia and New Zealand this year amounted to 108,198 cases and 1863 cases respectively. With the departure of the G©elong, there will have called at Hobart for fruit this season twenty-six ocean liners, including vessels of the Orient, P. and 0., White Star, Blue Funnel, Aberdeen, and Blue Anchor fleets. By steamers to call at the end of thi3 month, 142,500 cases of late varieties of apples are to be shipped to London, additional to 14,000 cases to be despatched bo Wellington for transhipment to Buenos Airea and Rio de Janeiro.