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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 October 1932, Page 2

“Normally our shipments arrive in good condition, but this year that was not so,” said Mr. J. L. Brown of Nelson, late Chairman of the Fruit Control Board, on his return from London, to Auckland, to-day. He said that shipment after shipment of apples particularly Cox’s and Jonathans, arrived in bad condition. There would be an inquiry held here as to the cause. The only lots in good condition were from Auckland and Christchurch. These bad shipments had a serious effect on New Zealand’s export trade. Referring to the experimental shipment of passion fruit, he said that a few packages which arrived in good condition, were regarded as the finest flavoured that were ever sold at Covent Garden but it would take many years to cultivate the demand foi’ passion fruit in England. The same remark applied to the juice. He was in England when the trial shipment of New Zealand grapefruit arrived. His considered opinion was that Poorman oranges should never have been labelled grapefruit. Even if Poorman orange were shipped as marmalade orange, he did not think it would have a chance to compete with the Spanish orange.—Press Assn.