NEW ZEALAND APPLES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 107, 6 May 1926, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND APPLES

THE ARSENIC TROUBLE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) liONDON, 23rd March. : Colonel C. Gray, Government representative and chairman of the Fruit Export Control Board, has visited Bristol and Cardiff, and has made arrangement for a firm at each centre to handle New Zealand apples. One of the vessels carrying New Zealand fruit will Evrive at Glasgow about the end oi! April, and will then go direct to Cardiff »nd Bristol. Later on in the season the Southampton will also carry fruit direct to those ports. "Very Kttio New Zealand fruit," «*id Colonel Gray, "has been seen in the West of England, and they seem very keen on obtaining it." Colonel Gray has also been in negotiation with the Continent, but for'the present he ViU be dealing with Continental buyers through London representatives. The first consignment of apples by the Arawa, which is expected to arrive next Runday, should be available for the iEaster markot. Colonel Gray maintains that thu popuJar scare with regard to arsenic on apples has had certain definite reHults on the market. Retailers are buying Jnore sparingly and this has had the reRult of causing existing supplies to go Snto consumption less speedily llian iiisual. Ho hopes that as a result of the Information that lias come forward and of the analysis niaclo of New Zealand. Tipples the Tetailcrs and the public will Jiavu no suspicion of tho Dominion Jfniit. Tho matter must not be taken too lightly, however foolish it may .ipIcear to tUo srowcrs in New ilealaiid.