FRUIT EXPORTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 22 December 1933, Page 6

FRUIT EXPORTS

ENGLISH AND ARGENTINE MARKETS PROBLEMS OF CONTROL BOARD (Bj Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, 20th December. The difficulties in the marketing of New Zealand fruit exported abroad were commented on by Mr W. Benxies, secretary of the New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board, who returned to Auckland by the Rangitata after a. business trip to South America and England. Mr Bcnzios said he did not wish to refer to the recently-com-pleted marketing arrangements for 1934 until lie had met members of the hoard, and discussed the matter with them. “Under the- present economic conditions, tho future of tlie Argentine as a market for our fruit exports is extremely problematical,” Mr Bennies said. “Marketing in England, too, is becoming mote and more difficult every year. A larger quantity and greater variety of fruit is entering England every year, tnd there is naturally a limit to the capacity of the market. Bananas arc a class of fruit which compete to a. marked extent with New Zealand apples. In 1914 Great Britain imported annually about, 6,000,000-bunches of bananas. Now her imports are about three times as large. In addition, imports of cherries, peaches, and other similar fruits have all increased materially, and the public is being given an over-widening selection. Nevertheless, there is still an assured demand for Now Zealand apples, and the problem with which the board is faced is how to market, tins fruit to the best advantage.” APPLES FOR AMERICA FRUIT BOARD ACTION Air 11. Turner, tlie London manager of the New Zealand Fruit Board, will leave London about mid-December on a visit to Eastern Canada and the Eastern States cf America, states the “Orchardist.” The withdrawal of the embargo by the United States on the entry of New Zealand fruit lias created a prospective market whjicli the Fruit Board has decided should he thoroughly investigated. A very satisfactory trade has been developed in recent" years with Eastern Canada, and the Fruit Board is convinced that the quantities at present being shipped can be considerably increased. Mr Turner will be absent from London for four or five weeks, and while in America and Canada will co-operate with Mr J. A. Campbell, the director of the New Zealand Horticulture Division, who has been sent by the Government to facilitate through American Government channels the development of a fruit trade with America.