FRUIT EXPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 3

FRUIT EXPORTS

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(By Telegrap.li.) : (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, 27th October. Problems of vital interest to the, JCew Zealand fruit exporter were discussed by Mr. .1. L. Brown, of Kelson, late chairman of the New Zealand Prtfit Control Board, who returned by the Bangitiki this morning. He went to London last year to control the London office of the board until a permanent head was appointed, and on the arrival of Mr. H. Turner, he relinquished his duties. . In the course of an interview, Mr. Brown stated that normally our shipments of fruit arrive in good condition, but this year that was not the case with apples, particularly Cos's Orange and Jonathans. An inquiry would be held in the Dominion, he said, as to the cause so far. as Jonathans are concerned. They were suffering from low temperature scald, and Cox's Orange from over maturity. "We have had ono 01' two bad shipments of Cox's Orange in the past," said Mr. Brown, "but never such a succession of- consignments."' Beferring to an experimental shipment of passion fruit, he said that' a few packages which arrived in good condition were regarded as the finest flavoured fruit of the kind ever sold at -Covent Garden, but that it would take jnany years to cultivate a demand for ■passion fruit in England. The same remark applied to the juice.