TASMANIA SUPPLIES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 31 August 1928, Page 10

TASMANIA SUPPLIES

: GOING ABROAD FOR FRUIT It will no doubt come as a surprise to many readers that a New Zealand export house with connections in the South American fruit trade should buy outside the. Dominion. Messrs. Eedpath and Co., of Christchurch and Wellington, have long had relations with fruit distributors in Buenos Aires, but except for such as was suitable produced in the Otago district they '■ could not ship, fruit from pther dis--tricts in the Dominion. Supplies :from Otago. however, were not sufficient for, their purposes having regard to the character of.the Buenos Aires market; accordingly they have been compelled to draw on Tasmania this season, the fruit being loaded there and passing through the Port of Wellington to Montevideo. Space was required for 50,000: cases,, but all that was' available on the ship loaded was.for 13,000 cases, and this was filled. The. Tasinanian i'ruit entered the Buenos Aires market in mid-August, and-against the competition of a ilarge shipment of new season's North American-..Graven-, steins, which had been placed on" the market a-few days previously. Unfortunately through being unable to obtain all the .fruit they, required in New Zealand Messrs. Kedpath/state that they have had to.declino substantial South American business. They report having been advised by cablegram yesterday of the following gross returns for the Tasmaniau fruit above referred to:—Delicious 21s per case, Tasraa 15s 9d, Kome Beauties and Hoovers 14s, sterling equivalent.