IMMENSE APPLE CROP.
EXTENSION OF GUARANTEE. NELSON. April 29. In opening the Nelson Horticultural Society’s chrysanthemum show, Mr 11. Atmore, M.P., who last week rendered valuat le service in the interests of Nelson fruit exporters, referred to the position of the export apple trade. Last year he said the Government had given a penny per pound guarantee up to 300,000 cases. This had been increased at she beginning of this season to 500,000 cases. The yield this year was such an enormous one that it was later found necessary to raise the number on which a guarantee was to be given up to 650,000 cases. Later still, the Government was asked to raiae it to 750,000 cases, and he felt perfectly certain the request would be granted. The Port Hobart would load up to 60,000 cases at Nelson, and even more if the depth of water allowed, and when she left New Zealand she would go as the first ship to leave with a full oargo of apples, carrying probably up to 120,000 cases.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 76
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