NEW ZEALAND FRUIT

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 35, 10 August 1921, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND FRUIT

■* PRICES At HULL

PEARS NOT A SUCCESS,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 16th 1 June. A certain proportion of the Athenio shipment of apples and pears was sent to Ball for dispofal, but tuo average prices realised were not quite good as those obtained for the portion of the shipment sold in London. Pnoe9 received for apples' were 6cl to Is lower than the London figures, and, adding to/this freight from London to Hull, whioh would rim ptobably to overt 1b 6d per case, tho result would bo a depreciation of from 2s to 2s 6d per case compared Svith. prices received on the London market. ' ' ,' In tho first place the market at Hull was well provided with Tasmanian apples, in* not very g<»d order, and I this had a. prejudicial effect on the auctions. Probably, too, the extra few days required for transit had some effect on the condition of the fruit. Prioes ranged from 21s- per case for such varieties as Jonathans, and King Davids up to 30s, and 32s for Cleopatras. The average for Jonathans and ■ King Davids, however, was about 235. Dunn's Favourites sold as low as 21s per ease, but those *in better condition were disposed of for as high as 28s. On tho whole the pears were not a suocess. They arrived in a w'asty condition, and it is evident that thora is still a great deal to loam regarding the carriage of fruit. Of tho different varieties Vicar of Wingfield arrived in the best condition, owing io, its hardness The opinion is expressed by some of the brokers on Covent Garden that the low temperature during transport was accountable for tho condition of the fruit on arrival, but this is a matter which still has to be decided. Prices in Hull ranged from 7s to 14s per, half-oase, but some went m low as Is per half-oaee. Mr. G. Stratford, who has been superintending the arrangement* at this end, is going fully into the question of the condition of the fruit on arrival, and no doubt when ho is able to gam further information from the consignors he w; have some suggestions to mtilco which -will be of benefit next season. Mr. Stratford is returning to New Zealand about the middle of July. An exhibition of specially selected apples and. peurs'from the Atlwnic shipment, which is now arranged, in the show window of tho Now Zealand Government offices, is causing a^goocl deal of admiration among pedestrians in tho Strand. They certainly make o very fine display, and even tho pears look as if they had not long loft their parent branch. It is an exhibition which reveals what tho Dominion can produce without lotting the 'public into the secret of defective carriajje and other difficulties which <loubt ;i loss -ii'ill be overcomo in time. Sir James; Allen is attending the dinner of tho Armourera' Company to-night, when a specul teftttuis o? the d«M«tt w»U fee (bo New