N.Z. APPLE TRADE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10562, 16 April 1928, Page 5

N.Z. APPLE TRADE.

- AS LANDING PORT FRUIT REACHES LONDON CHEAPER AND QUICKER United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.) (Received April 15, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 14. Despite a fair measure of play in New Zealand Fruit B'oard, strikingly points oqt the advantage in landing fruit at Southampton. He says it is cheaper and quicker to bring apples tm Covent Garden from Southampton than from Tilbury or King George Dock, owing to cheaper port rates and better facilities for landing and despatching. He instances the case of the season’s first arrivals on March 23, when Australian apples were landed at London and New Zealand at Southampton within two hours of each other. The following morning 8,000 cases of New Zealand ‘apples were on the market and only 700 cases of Australian. ? Mr Stephens is urging the Port of London Authority to come into lino with Southampton. He is. also pointing out that better facilities exist at Hamburg as a Continental distribuing centre than at London. POOR PRICES FOR COLONIAL APPLES. SUCCESS OF AMERICAN DUMPING METHODS. United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.) (Received April 15, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 15. 'Fruit traders are disappointed at the prices realised for Australian and New Zealand apples. This is attributed partly to heavy supplies of good cheap oranges, also the unexpected competition of Oregon Newtons. Recently these have been comparatively scarce, and only of moderate quality, but the Americans apparently reserved some of their best, and dumped many thousand cases of good quality on the English markets this week.