EXPORT FRUIT TRADE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 24, 27 July 1929, Page 12

EXPORT FRUIT TRADE.

Australian l'ress Association. Received 27th July, 9.5 a.m.)

w' t ■•<• , •■BYI»NBY, This Day. At a iruit marketing conference at Sydney yesterday- the need for the proper organisation of the export trade, if Australian fruit is to hold its own against American competition in the British markets, was stressed. It was stated that whereas there was an enormous crop of apples in Australia last year the position WO j L be reversed this year. Tasmania and Western Australia were the only onn ™ W'tk °?T al crops- The V° were suu.ouu cases of American apples marketed in England last Mnv.

.New Zealand exports this year amounted to 007,295 cases apples and 72,654 cases pears, of which the United Kingdom took the greater, quantity, but there were also exported to Montevideo and Kio de Janeiro 154,402 cases fruit; to Halifax Scotia' 12;W°; to the Continent 119,8i)4 cases. .Nelson's contribution of fruit topped the lot with 557,504 cases apples and 17,040 cases peats