EXPORT OF FRUIT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21132, 15 March 1932, Page 11

EXPORT OF FRUIT.

SEASON IN DOMINION. RECORD FIGURES PROBABLE. NELSON'S GOOD "PROSPECTS. [by teleghafh.—own correspondent.] DUNEDIN, Monday. As part of his personal investigation prior to leaving as the Fruit Export Control Board's representative in London, Mr. IT. Turner has just finished a comprehensive tour of fruit-growing areas in the Canterbury, Marlborough and Nelson districts. Mr. Turner stated that Canterbury would have a very small quantity of apples and pears for export this season owing to the dry spell, and Otago would have to be content with sending away perhaps about 20,000 cases, whereas, but for the October frost, its total would probably have reached 120,000. Marlborough and Nelson orchards showed great promise, the indications in Nelson being the best for both quantity and quality that lie had ever seen. Nelson itself will produce for export nearly 1.000,000 cases.

The prospects were that the total export for tho Dominion would exceed last year's record figures by possibly 250,000 cases, the quantity in sight being approximately 1,600,000 cases. This increase in quantity, together with the fact that tho season was two or three weeks earlier than last year, was causing the Fruit Board and tho shipping companies concern as to how transport could bo effected. The shipping companies wore doing their best to cope with the difficulty, which was made tho harder bccauso of the heavy increase in meat export.