FRUIT IN OTAGO

Evening Post, Volume 105, Issue 4, 6 January 1928, Page 8

FRUIT IN OTAGO

GOOD RETURNS EXPECTED (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenlno Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. The heavy frost experienced in some parts of Otago Central early last month had disastrous result on the apple crops in the Fruitlands district, where a high grade of Cox's Orange Pippin is grown. Practically the whole of the.crops were wiped out. The area most seriously affected by the frost comprises some 150 acres, and the growers have had to cancel their orders for boxes and other requirements for packing apples for export. Fortunately other districts were not seriously affected by the frost, and the growers anticipate that their outputs of apples will be larger than those of last year. Apart from the frost, however, growers will suffer some losses in many of the districts through "dropping," this being the result of the cold and unseasonable weather which was experienced in the spring and early summer. Notwithstanding these losses, the output of apples this year from Central Otago should be larger than that of last year. Good crops of stone fruit all round are expected, with a heavier return this year than for some years past. In tho Teviot district especially there will bo heavy crops of apricots and peaches. Plums, however, are • variable crop, and the returns will;