SEASON'S FRUIT CROPS.
GOOD NELSON YIELD. DECLINE IN- CANTERBURY. Experts in the fruit trade industry in the Nelson district expect to see a new record established for export fruit. In all parts of the district there are magnificent crops of clean fruit, and practically with' out exception growers state that their crops are heavier lhan they have ever known them to be. The harvesting of Cox's Orange is now in progress. This popular variety has cropped heavily and the fruit generally is of splendid quality. The apples of this variety being handled in the sheds are clean and of good appearance and growers anticipate a. <jood return from them. Judicious spraying and favourable weather have combined to produce the largest and cleanest crop the district has known. Hail and snow in the early part of the present fruit season have been responsible for a sharp decline in the export of apples and pears from . the Canterbury, district. Mr. B. G. Goodwin, orchard instructor in Canterbury for the Department of Agriculture, said last week that, this season only about. 8000 cases of apples and pears were to be exported, compared'with over 30.000 cases last season. The reason for this large decline was that the Canterbury crops, particularly in the Loburn area, which was the principal export district, had suffered severely from hail and snow. The hailstorm on January 1 had done & great deal of damage in that- district.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21131, 14 March 1932, Page 5
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237SEASON'S FRUIT CROPS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21131, 14 March 1932, Page 5
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