EXPORT PROSPECTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21850, 22 October 1945, Page 2

EXPORT PROSPECTS

500,000 CASES OF FRUIT

BULK PURCHASE PROBABLE (P.A.) PALMERSTON N., Oct. 22.

That there were prospects of exporting about half a million cases of fruit during the coining season was the information given, by Mr. A. C. Ward, the association’s representative on the New Zealand Fruit Marketing Council. when reporting to a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers’ Association.

He said that Hawke’s Bay’s share in that export would be about 100,000 cases, the balance of 400,000 cases being allocated to Nelson. He did not think there would be a reversion to the pre-war state under which the industry would handle its own exoort. Instead. Ihe New Zealand Government would take the fruit as a bulk purchase. Mr. Ward announced that the average payout on the Hawke’s Bay p'pfruit crop from 194!i would be fis 2.07 d for apples and 0s 10.34 d for pears, giving an overall average for apolcs and pears of Os 4Jd. As the Dominion average was 0s Id. Hawke’s . Bay growers were 3.]d better off than growers elsewhere. In 1940 the Hawke’s Bay production was 727.5791, cases.