APPLES FOR EXPORT
NELSON GROWERS CANVASSED BY BUYERS. Press Association.
' NELSON, March 8. There has been an extraordinary demand for apples for export in the Nelson district. During the past few weeks buyers have literally chased one another through the district snapping up every available case. South America is exerting a strong claim on Now Zealand apples and would absorb many more times as much fruit as is available. There has been a particularly heavy crop of apples this year, and growers have been receiving between 6s and 7s a case from Wellington. Buyers have also been operating from other parts of New Zealand where the crops have been a failure and to some extent have increased the demand, but South America is the greatest market. Since the market there has been opened up, fruit-growing in Nelson has made rapid strides. During the past few years the new orchards planted represent 4500 acres, or 728,000 trees. It is estimated there will be a million and a-half cases tor export in a few years’ time.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 8987, 9 March 1915, Page 7
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174APPLES FOR EXPORT New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 8987, 9 March 1915, Page 7
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