FRUIT EXPORT TRADE
Owing to the low prices of apples during Jane and July, Mr. H. E. Stephens (London representative of the Fruit Control Board) arranged for a quantity from the later shipments to be stored. Altogether about 100,000 cases were held in cool store at Southampton, Avonmouth, irad .Glasgow: Early arrivals of American fruit induced Mr. Stephens not to hold the New Zealand produce too long, and aiming the two or three weeks ended loth August all but 40,000 of the 100,000 cases Jiad been released for sale. Stunners Made froni 8s to 10s 6d and red apples ps to 11s 6d. A consignment of 250 cases tit' Granny Smiths were sold at from 23s (to .'2ss. The Canadian National Railways office, Auckland, reports that this year's apple fctop for. British Cohimbia. is estimated at g,000,000 boxes. Over 20 per cent, of this «:rop will be shipped to Great Britain, and |ietween.4oO and 500 carloads of 750 501b Jioxes will be railed to Ontario. Most o£ jijxe fruit k grown about the Okanagan galley, into which the Canadian National Pailways hare recently built new lines.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 12
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186FRUIT EXPORT TRADE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 12
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