APPLE MARKETS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 July 1928, Page 5

APPLE MARKETS

PRICES WELL MAINTAINED

LONDON, 14th July.

The Australian and New Zealand apple season is finishing satisfactorily, for though arrivals during the last week at various English ports aggregated a quarter of a million boxes the demand is so good that prices have been maintained. For this we have to thank a spell of hot weather we have had for a fortnight, which has given an enormous stimulus to the consumption of fruit, so that although the market is well sup-, plied with both home grown and Continental soft fruits the demand, for ap-.

pies is sufficient to clear all arrivals, and there lias been no end of season slump in prices which has often pre-" viously been experienced. A feature of the apple trade this, season has been the heavy sales at Hamburg, where seventeen steamers landed . 666,885 boxes from West Austrafia,South Australia, and Victoria. This is easily a record for Hamburg, and .importers there are claiming that the Hamburg market is regaining its old position as one of the most important centres for the distribution ol Aus'tra"-, .-, lian apples. They are carrying out -ari ,- extensive "eat more fruit" propaganda . campaign and to this they attribute the,,. , success in selling such a large quantity > of apples at prices at which they claim i average about two shillings a case more than realised in other markets.