FROST-DAMAGED FRUIT

Evening Star, Issue 22627, 20 April 1937, Page 6

FROST-DAMAGED FRUIT

ORCHARD INSTRUCTOR TO SAIL FOR AMERICA WILL INVESTIGATE PROTECTION SYSTEMS [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 19. The gradually changing seasons and frost are causing so much damage to fruit and loss to growers that the Government has instructed _Mr W. B. Lloyd Williams, orchard instructor in Central Otago, to leave by the Aorangi for the Western States of America and investigate the anti-frost systems there. Fire pots, known in America as “ smudges,” are employed in a few New Zealand fruitgrowing areas, but Mr Williams seeks an alternative method, and hopes to bo able to introduce it before next spring. “In America,” said Mr Williams, “ the use of fire pots is part of orchard practice.” He anticipates that the universal adoption of some protective system in New Zealand would save the country much loss from frost-bitten fruit.

AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGES Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, April 19. On the Stock Exchange Government loans were active and generally firm. Base metals suffered further reverses as a result of the weakness in the London price.

SOUTHERN STARR-BOVVKETT 'i ' . BALLOT AND SALES A meeting of'members of the. Southern Starr-Bowkett Society was held last night in Messrs AV. E. C. Reid and Co.’s office. Mr H. T. Speight presided over a fail - attendance of shareholders. The eighty-seventh appropriation of £SOO by ballot, in group No. 3 resulted in cluster No. 7 being drawn, the five shares being hold by one shareholder. The fortieth appropriation of £T,OOO by sale in group No. 4 resulted in £SOO being sold at a premium of £ls 5s per £IOO and the remaining £SOO was sold at a premium of £ls 2s per £IOO. The forty-eighth appropriation of £SOO by sale in group No. 5 was sold at a premium of £2O 5s per £IOO. SYDNEY WOOL SALES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, April 19. At the wool sales 12,065 bales were offered and 10,940 sold, \yhile 657 were disposed of privately. There was spirited competition from all quarters, and tbo market was very firm. Greasy merino made to 2Sid.

MORNING SALES. £ 3. d. Commonwealth Bonds— 3 per cent., 1948 ... ... 90 15 0 3J per cent., 1949 94 2 6 4 per cent., 1938 102 3 9 4 per cent., 1941 103 1 3 4 per cent., 1947 102 10 0 4 per cent., 1959 100 10 0 4 per cent., 1961 100 12 6 Wilcox Mofflin 0 13 9 Austral Gas (A) ... ■ 7 4 0 Anthonv Hordern 1 0 G. J. Coles ... 5 9 0 Broken Hill Proprietary ... 4 '3 6 (new) 3 17 0 Electrolytic Zinc 2 19 0 (New Zealand delivery) 2 19 0 (New Zealand delivery) 2 19 3 (Pref., N.Z. delivery) 3 0 6 R. Fowler ••• 0 12 8 AFTERNOON SALES. Bank of New South. Wales 38 2 6 Howard Smith 1 3 7} Burns, Philp 4 5 0 Australian Gas (A) ... ... 7 4 6 Tooths 2 17 3 Tooheys 1 14 0 Toheys (rights) 0 8 10 Goldsbrough, Mort 1 17 3 Wilcox Mofflin ... 0 14 0 Morris Hedstrom 1 10 0 Electrolytic Zinc 2 J 8 0 Electrolytic Zinc (pref.) ... 3 4 0 Electrolytic Zinc (N.Z. delivery) ... ... ... ••• 2 19 6 David Jones ... ... ... 2 3 0 Lustre 1 2 H Mount Morgap , 0 16 6 Mount Lyetl 2 5 6 Broken Hill Pty 4 3 0 Broken Hill Pty. (new) ... 3 16 0 Broken Hill South 2 6 6 North Broken Hill 3 11 3 Bulolo Deposits 0 1 5} Rawang 0 11 1 Larut 1 u 9 Placer Deevlopment 4 18 0 Mount Kasi ... 0 6 n Mineral Development 0 2 5 Tavua Development 0 0 7 MELBOURNE, April 19. ' The market generally was quiet. Barriers and Mount Lyells were weaker. £ R. d. National Bank (£10 paid) 15 19 0 Adelaide Steam ... 1 12 6 Carlton Brewery 3 1 6 Coles 5 6 0 Australian Iron and Steel (pref.) 1 6 10} Drug Houses 1 7 9 Dunlop Perdriau (ord.) ... 1 1 2 Dunlop Perdriau (pref.) .. 1 15 0 General Motors 1 4 2 Hume Pipe 1 0 4 Victoria Nyanza O'18 9 Mount Morgan 0 16 9 Mount Lvell 2 5 n Emperor 0 17 ii Loloma 1 2 8 New Broken Hill Consolidated 1 0 3 Tongkah Compound 1 7 0 Kauri Timber ■ 1 4 3 Sulphide Corporation 0 16 3