TASMANIAN APPLES
HEAVY SHIPMENTS
The Taiinanian orchard fruit export season is Ui full swing. To the middle of March V 497,976 cases. of apples and pears had been .shipped. .Of these, approximately 384,000 cases were loaded at Hobart, and 113,976 cases in the Tamar. jv i'substantial' beginning has, therefore^ been made , towards Tasmania's tiuota of 2,300,000-odd cases. This expo/rt- quota .total represents but half of thi 2 'expectant total crop, which "is calciilEi ted- to, yield. more -than 4,750,000 bushels; of apples and pears, so that Australian markets will have large quantities to absorb., : The. likely total of 4(500,000; bushels of Tasmaman apples -fofr .the.. present season,-, thoughshort of jihe 4,618,200 case' average for the last fl ye years by 118,000 cases, pre-. seiits a! gi.-eatbulk of marketable fruit; and grbM-e'rs ai'e awaiting with' lively expectation the price indication, that will be f(-)Ethcomingfrom sales returns for the j=:arly shipments sent : away.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 12
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151TASMANIAN APPLES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 12
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