EXPORT FRUIT PRICES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 November 1927, Page 4

EXPORT FRUIT PRICES

INDIVIDUAL AVERAGE RETURNS INTERESTING FIGURES Interesting figures showing the net average individual prices obtained for export fruit last season were given- by Col. Gray, chairman of the Export Fruit Control Board, in the course of his address at Stoke last evening. Hie figures were: — _Worcester, 11s 'sd; Cox’s, 16s 3d; Dunns, 12s 7d; Jonathans, 13s Id; Delicious, 13s; _ London, 12s; King David, 12s 3d; Winesap, 13s; Adams Pearmain, 12s 3d; Cleopatra, 14s sd; Premier, 11s 6d; Wolseley, 12s Id; Alfriston, 12s 4d; Granny Smith, 21s 4d; Gravenstein, 11s 6d; Russet, 10s 9d; Stark 12s 9d; Newton, 14s 4d; Shepherd’s Perfection, 11s; W. Sharp, 12s 3d; Mack. Red, 13s sd; Senator* 13s 23; Hoover, 12s 2d; Spitzbergen, 12s 9d; Shoreland Queen, 11s 2d; Ribston, 10s 3d; Sturmer, 15s; Statesman, 15s 9d; Tasma, 15s 2d; Docherty, 16s 9d; Rokewood, 16s lid; Ballarat, 12s 8d; Rome Beauty, 16s 8d; Pioneer, 14s sd; Cambridge, 15s; Macmahons 11s lid; Symons Winter, 16s 7d; Salome, 17s lid; Lippiatt, 15s; G. Pippin, 11s sd; Washington, 7s lid; Yates, 15s 4d; good russet Sturmer, 14s sd.' Ii would be noticed tne good average prices of the main varieties. The speaker also detailed the average net returns obtained by the various brokers, there being a difference of lid a case between the highest and the lowest, averaging from 14s lOd to 13s lid. The over-all average for the entire export was 14s id net c.i.f. in Great Britain, which he considered would make a net return to the grower of 4s 6d .to 5s in the orchard.