PEACHES SENT TO LONDON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 August 1933, Page 7

PEACHES SENT TO LONDON

EXPERIMENT PROVES SUCCESSFUL GOOD PRICES FOR CENTRAL OTAGO FRUIT A "toss return on the Covent Garden market of £lO 15s 6d for 21 cases of peaches exported to Great Britain from Roxburgh in April last by Mr W J Manuel, of Coal Creek, may be regarded as conclusive evidence that stone fruit can be successfully transported to the other side of the world and on arrival sold at highly remunerative prices (reports the Dunedin correspondent of the Christchurch “Press” The net return from the market was £9 Is 7d f but with the exchange added the grower received at Roxburgh £H 6s sd, or an average of 10s 9LI a case. Each case contained approximately 55 peaches, and was packed under the supervision oi the Government grader, Mr Frew. . The fruit was part of an experimental consignment shipped by the 1 ort Hunodin which arrived m London on 22nd May’ It was subject to examination and trial bv officers of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and cases not needed for the purposes of experiment were sent to the Covent Garden market- and sold, with the result all eddy St 'This is understood to he the first shipment of peaches from New Zealand to London, and the fact that the experiment has met with such remarkable success should ho of great interest to growers’of stone fruit. If stone fruit can he landed in London in June in sound condition, it should he an extremely profitable form of export, as at tlum time ot the year in England peaches arc sold retail 'at fancy prices, as much as 2 s 6d and 3s 6d each being asked for them m London. ~ , \ detailed renort on the experiment will be made later; but the prices secured for the fruit that was sold would indicate that it arrived in a condition attractive to the London trade.