DIRECT LOADING FOR EXPORT AT NELSON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 April 1928, Page 4

DIRECT LOADING FOR EXPORT AT NELSON

(To the Editor) Sir. —The welcome rain has given the appTf* growers time l<> think alioitt something other Limn picking and packing. What is worrying me and also my neighliours is why when we have this season shipped to 2/th March 199.898 cases tu the United Kingdom cannot the limits loading at Nelson get their lull allotment. The Matatua went away about 6000 eases short and the -Devon 10,000 oases short.

Seeing the saving to growers shipping from Nelson is an average of (id a ease this means we have lost already on these two boats £400: a dead loss to ns growers who cannot, afford to lose a penny. You published figures showing that within lutir days of the Devon, arriving 14,000 cases were shipped lo Wellington. So again it cannot In- that, we are not producing t he fruit.

Is it because we have only one rest dent member on the Fruit- Control Board and that our business is being controlled and run from Wellington instead of where the apples are produced? Why is it we have and allow to continue such lop sided representation? We ship twothirds of the export and have done so lor years and have only one resident member for the whole district out of a Control Board of live or six. It, is just as well he is a good live member too. Now 1 see the West mot eland that was to load 60,000 eases at Txekson this week is not coming. Can you tell us why? Again it cannot he for want of Nelson fruit as it was published that 60,000 cases were to he shipped to Wellington (three days before her date of arrival at Nelson. Does t?io silence about this steamer mean that she is coming later or anolher boat coming in her place (o Nelson f If not, we growers are going to lose 60,000 sixpences, a con! £ISOO that we cannot afford to lose.—l am etc. ‘ KING DAVID."