REACTION ON APPLE EXPORT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 108, 7 May 1926, Page 9

REACTION ON APPLE EXPORT

MAINTAINING QUALITY PENDING DISCHARGE.

The chairman of the Fruit Export Control Board, Colonel C. Gray, left Now Zealand last November fo- London, and his presence there, in direct touch with the fruit markets and brokers, is an indication that difficulties arising out of the general strike will be watched from the Now Zealand producer's angle closely, and will, aa far as possible, l?o met. Apples in cool store "are, of course, more perishable than dairy produce in refrigeration, and the situation is not as favourable when apples have to be kept on a steamer in port as when they are in cool store ashore; but information recei-ed from London is to the effect that the machinery will be kept going on the steamers in port for the purpose of delaying the deterioration of the apples; and, if the}' were in proper condition when shipped, this measure will keep them in good, condition for quite a fie. Then, when the geueral strike is over, or is sufficiently abated to permit resumption of the discharging of steamors,* it may be possible to make arrangements to "widen the distribution of the apples, and so modify the degree ( " market glut.