FEWER APPLES EXPORTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 13

FEWER APPLES EXPORTED

NEW ZEALAND FRUIT

REVIEW OF THE SEASON

BIG HAWKE’S BAY DROP

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The report of the Fruit Board shows that the season’s apple shipments, together with the comparative figures for the previous year, were as follow : Cases Cases District 1936-37 1935-36 Auckland ... 62.017 51.296 Poverty Bay ... 2.689 21.718 Hawke’s Bay ... 7.G77 .150,819 Wairarapa ... 14,698 1 6,550 Marlborough ... 77.608 47.157 Nelson 575,758 738,Ml Canterbury ... 13,625 28.539 Otago 347,610 61.079 Years totals are 901,082 1,115,599 The pears exported totalled 142.416 cases against 113,031 last year. The effects of frost in Hawke’s Bay is clearly shown in the figures for that district. The export destinations of the fruit Were :

In addition to the above Otago sent to Calcutta ICO cases of apples, to Liverpool 22,698 cases, and to London 124,912 eases of apples and 6227 eases of pears. The London manager's report states that- the fruit this year turned out better than lie had seen for many years.

Destination Cases apples Cases pears Halifax. Nova Scotia, 71,380 — Cristobal, Panama zone 200 — Rio do Janeiro 15.000 — Santos, Brazil 10,000 — Slam burg 24.628 o33 Hook of Holland 48.121 — Singapore 1001 — Batavia 1155 Saigon ... 50 — .Manila 1003 • Hongkong 786 — Shanghai 980 — Sweden 41.105 6087 London 598.262 28,879 Southampton 56,973 366 Avonmouth 9678 — Glasgow 28.809 — Manchester 27,739 — Liverpool 33,973 — Totals 750.823 35,965