TASMANIAN APPLE TRADE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 6 (Supplement)

TASMANIAN APPLE TRADE.

BIG SHIP^IENT BY THE DURHAM.

A WbliLD'S WORP,

Ihe fruit ctrrgo by tlie FederaUHoulder Shite liner Diirliam, which left Hobait on Friday week, is not only the lurgest that lias left Hobaitt m one bottom, hut it is from any part of the world m cool chambers. The shipment exceeds 100,000 busnels, and vjtill be landed at three ports. l'i>e Durham will disoharge the London portion at Sriutliainpton, and then proceed to Liverpool ahd Mahchester. onder the cpntrtKct entered into, she ip. to arrive at Southampton on June- Ist, the voyage, which ig to be made by the Cap? Horn route, thus occupying 60 days; Ihe Durham took m 250 tons of coal nt" Hobart, making tlie total on hoard 1700 tons, thus obviating the necessity for ball, ing at any brt <jh route to replenish ?o ™ rs< -, I **? fc ¥ lon 8 voyage of some l_.,yiX) miles She has to keep up an average speed of TO knots an 'hour m order to arrive at her destinatiori m contract time, an achievement worthy of more than passing comment. The Durham Will be tlie first steamer to take Tasmanian apples direct to Manchester, and the tirSt steamer that has ever left Tasemanla fbr England without calling at other pOrts en route. The cargo of apples was ldaded into nine separate chambers through five hatciiways. There js a separate fan to each hold for icirculating the air, and <&eh hold is worked independently. The Durham is regarded as having the .best aystern for circulating air of any vessel that has yet loaded at this port. It is safe to say {writes tide Hobart Mercury) tliat no shipment of miore importance to T-Stoan-jan orchardis|6 lias >et gone forward, there m no doubt ghat if the cargo arrives m England m proper ordetv-^nd there appears every; likelihood that it will be so landed— the difficulty of high freights will have, been solved, thereby giving Tasmanian orchaftlists the advantage of landing their fruit at Home withih the reach of the masses, aii achievement that will renaer po.sible an enormous expansion m the fruit industry. If this immense cargo turns out as well as anticipated, it means that m the future the bulk of the apnle shipments to^ the Old Country wilPbe made oA a similar wholesale scale, thus placing our friiit within the means of the poorer classed who \\ovr never taste a Tasmaman apple. 'The fate of this shipmeat will, therefore, be watched' with tne keenest interest as it openp up su 0 j l vwt possibilities % the. future. - An important point iri connection with this big shipMe of apples is that a rePf^ nt «tVpf the fyuftgrowers is prointerests. Mr ftafold Jones, of Broadmarsh, was seleoted, ho being the largert shipper and fruitgrower who made application. He will kee\y a check on the tim perature at wlrch the fruit is carried all the way Home. The largest shipment of apples nteviously made from Tasmania was by the P and O. steamer Palermo, which left Ho™l,i ast n,onth ' the quantity being 62,637 caßw. : f °