N.Z. EXPORT APPLES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 268, 27 October 1932, Page 7

N.Z. EXPORT APPLES

BAD SHIPMENTS HAVE SERIOUS EFFECT. INQUIRY TO BE HELD. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Oct. 27. “Normally our shipments arrive in good condition, but this year that was not so,’’ said Mr. G. L. Brown, of Nelson, late chairman of the Fruit Control Board, on his return from London. Mr. Brown said that shipment after shipment of apples, particularly Coxs and Jonathans, arrives in bad condition. An inquiry would be held here as to the cause. The only lots in good condition were from Auckland and Christchurch. These bad shipments had had a serious effect on New Zealand’s export trade. Referring to the experimental shipment of passion fruit, he said that a few of the packages which arrived in good condition were regarded as the finest flavoured that had ever been sold at Covent Garden, but it would take many years to cultivate a demand for 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 the poorman orange were shipped as a marmalade orange he did not think it would have a chance to compete with the Spanish orange.