APPLE EXPORTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 17 July 1923, Page 5

APPLE EXPORTS.

CONDITION ON ARRIVAL,

(BT TELEGRAPH PBESB ASSOCIATION.) - WELLINGTON , July 16. Mr Waters, Government Biologist, commenting on the. recent renort that isolated apples 111 cases shipped to London had brown heart,, explains that his investigations show that the di*ease was due in part to a lack of oxygen, hut susceptibility increased rapidly with the degree of ripeness, so that a few mature fruit in a case may be affected and others escape. An analyses of the air' in the hold might not reveal a deficiency of ogygen though it existed in a case among the apples. The closeness of the boards and the nature of wrapping were likely to affect the conditions in favoui; of the disease. Australian apples were less liable because the temperatures rapidly lowered, and the consumption of oxyge,n by the fruit, was promptly reduced. The ventilation in. many ships had been greatly improved, and the apples were shipned in a strikingly immature condition.