NELSON NEWS
THE FRUIT PICKING
APPLES SMALL IN SIZE
(From Our Own Correspondent.) XELSOX, 17th February. | 'fTho troublo at present with the apple crop," said Mr. J. H. Brunt, local manager of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation, to-day, "is the climatic conditions. The dry winter, followed by a dry spring and summer, is affecting (he size of the fruit." The fruit is colouring well, but the earlier pickings are limited on account of the small size of the fruit. Most growers will commence picking Ihe Cox Orange variety this week and Dunns next week. This will cause a considerable increase in the numbers of cases being received at the shipping points at Nelson, Mapua, and Motueku. The Cox Orange crop is heavy this year. H is expected by the end of this week to have sent forward to Wellington 120,000 cases, comprising Worcester^, Alfristons, and Cox's. That- quantity j will be the first shipment to leave New Zealand this season, and will bo carried i by the Port Gisbornc, which completes loading next Monday, and sails the following morning. Tho following Nelson liowing Club crews have been selected to go into training for the Kogers' Cup races:— Snodgrass (sir), Alexander, Hill, Lock; Curry (str), Fuller, Capper, W. Woolf; Ames (str), Gibbon, Hebbcvd, Stewart; Drogeriiuller (str), M'Kay, Mabin, A. Bell; Dyee (str), Oughton, Prouse, Stringer; C. J. Bell (str), Gilliland. M'Govern, Hunt. In the first of tho season's home-and- i homo tennis matches between Nelson and Marlborough, Marlborough won by 2!3 games to 10.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 14
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253NELSON NEWS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 14
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