APPLE EXPORT SEASON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 April 1928, Page 4

APPLE EXPORT SEASON

DECREASE IN AMERICAN SHIPMENTS The Empire Marketing Board repoits that very light shipments of apples from Atlantic'ports in Canada and the United Stab's were recorded in the week ended I Kill February, the totals to Europe amounting to' onlv 24.000 barrels and 26.000 boxes, as compared with .187.000 barrels and 37,000 boxes in the corresponding week last year. writes the Auckland "Herald's" London correspondent under date 6th March. Aggregate shipments since the beginning of .January have amounted to only 372.000 bar. ids —reckoning three boxes as equivalent to one barrel—or less than one-third ot the shipments in the corresponding period last season. Shipments from Pacific ports in the same period have amounted to 566.000 boxes, as compared with 1.042.000 boxes last year.

No fewer than live steamers were reported as having sailed from Cape Town during the six days from 14th February to 19th. inclusive, carrying a total of 252.000 boxes of fruit, of which 132.C0!) boxes are pears. Total shipments so far this season amount to 949.000 boxes, or 242.000 boxes more than at the same date last year. Shipments of pears already exceed the total shipments for lhe whole ol last season.

Owing to severe droughts in South Africa, the quantities of citrus fruits to be shipped during the coming season are expected to be considerably less than those cf last year.