BRITISH FRUIT TRADE.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1927, Page 11

BRITISH FRUIT TRADE.

. The "White Service" annual review of the Australian and New Zealand fruit trade during the 1926 season is received. It shows a total import of 3,488,225 cases, o£ which 564,302 were from New Zealand and 1,986,832 were from Tasmania. The figures relative to New Zealand do not agree with those of the New Zealand Fruit Control Board, which last season were as follow:— . ' . ■ Cases. United Kingdom 665,856 South America 1 61,130 727,036 The • difference may be explained by a variation in dates of compilation of the figures. The "White Review" gives the

following quantities of New Zealand landed at different ports: London, 356,892 cases apples, 4119 pears; Liverpool, 126,591 apples; Hull, 18,718 apples; Glasgow, 62,101 apples. Average prices realised m the United Kingdom for New Zealand apples were as follow:—April, 11s to'l6s; May, 10s to 13s; June, 9s for Jonathans. May to Juntf, Sr6d to 11s, and July, 8s to (to for Stunners. Total receipts, all ports of fruit from Australia and New Zealand:—London, 117,335 cases pears, 2,029,008 cases apples; Liverpool, 38,584 cases pears. 748,519 cases apples; Hull, 10,820 cases pears, 358,329 cases appleß; Manchester, 260 cases pears, 125,751 cases apples; Glasgow, 124,156 cases apples; Southampton. 82,462 cases apples. The "Review!' remarks on the abnormal circumstances of last season, emphasising the adverse influences on the market of the arsenic scare and the general and coal miners' Btrike. The "Review* further states that "It is impossible to overestimate the importance of distributing apples in economic relation to the respective distributive areas of the main British fruit ports." It holds that "the trade again suffered considerably by reason of excessive concentration on. the London and Southern markets."