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Evening Post, Issue 86, 11 April 1936, Page 15

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DOMINION CROP SURVEY

The Director of the Horticulture

Division has received the following reports from his officers regarding the fruit crop prospects at the end of March last:—Auckland: Apples, light to average; lemons and oranges, good promise; peaches, light to good; pears, fair to average; tomatoes, fair. Hamilton: Apples and pears, average; peaches, light to average. Tauranga: Apples, light to good; oranges, below average; pears, average; walnuts, light. Gisborne: Apples, heavy; lemons, average to heavy; oranges and walnuts, average; pears, medium to light; tomatoes, very light. Hastings: Apples, light; to good; pears, light to medium. Masterton: Apples, pears, and walnuts, average; tomatoes, moderate. Nelson: Apples, average to good; peaches and pears, good. Mapua: Apples, fair to good, stunners heavy; pears, good to heavy- Motueka: Apples,: good ,to heavy (hail damage); pears, good. Blenheim: Apples and peats, average to heavy; peaches, light to good; walnuts, light. Christchurch: Apples and walnuts, average; nectarines, peaches, and pears, heavy; plums, mednftn; tomatoes, average to good. Dunedin: Apples, light to heavy; peaches, good to heavy; pears, average to heavy; walnuts, average. Alexandra: Apples and pears, below average; tomatoes, average to good; walnuts, very heavy.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE,

[By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) MELBOURNE, April 9. ■■. Wheat, 3s 9Jd a bushel; flour, £9 7s 6d a ton; bran, £6 a ton; pollard,,. £6 5s a ton; maize 5s a bushel; oats, 2s 2d to 2s 3d a bushel; barley, English, 2s 9d to 2s lOd a bushel; potatoes, £9 10s a ton; onions, £.7 15s to £8 a ton.

SYDNEY, April 10. Wheat: At country sidings, bagged and bulk, 3s 2d a bushel, equal to 3s B£d ex trucks, Sydney; flour, £9 10s a ton; bran and pollard, £6 a ton; pota,toes, Tasmanian, (£7 10s to £8 a ton; others, £6 10s;.onions, Victorian brown, £10 a ton; maize new season's, 4s 6d a bushel. ' .

ADELAIDE, April 10. Wheat, growers' lots, 3s 6£d a bushel; flour, bakers' lots, £9 10s a ton; bran and pollard, £6 2s 6d; oats, Algerian, Is 9d to Is lOd a bushel; barley, Is lOd -a bushel,