EXPORT OF FRUIT

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 17, 4 March 1913, Page 4

EXPORT OF FRUIT

DEMAND FOR APPLES AND PEARS The prospects of establishing a profit able export trade in fruit from New Zealand have received considerable encouragement lately by the appreciation that has been shown towaads consignments that have gone abroad within the last year or so, says the “Times” This is being shown in a practical form by the receipt of an order for 30,000 cases of apples from the Argentine, and arrangements arc now being made to secure contributions of good coloured desert varieties. The Waitemata Society has undertaken to supply 4000 cases, and it is expected that no difficulty will be experienced in securing the balance of the order from other fruit-growing centres. The first shipments are to be made by the Remuera leaving Wellington early next month for Buenos Ayres. In conversation with an Auckland reporter, the manager of the Waitemata Fruitgrowers’ Society said that the price offered is higher than that paid by any other firm of exporters, there-fox-e it was to the growers’ interests to encourage the movement, for by so doing in all probability they will find .in South America a profitable market for all the surplus fruit, the amount of which is increasing every year. Another direction in. which an export trade in fruit may be successfully established is outlined by Mr P. Duffy, one of the largest operators in fruit on the Pacific coast, who is now visiting New Zealand. Mr Duffy considers the best fruit to grow for the American market is the pear, and he thinks that there is a far better chance of establishing a market with this fruit than with apples. Speaking to an interviewer, Mr Duffy said: “ My advice .to New Zealand fruit-growers is grow pears, and when the Panama Canal is through you will be able to put your fruit into New York and the other big centres in a little over three weeks. It is no good growing any sort of pear. There are three kinds to grow-—the best pears bar none, for shipping, keeping, and eating;—and they are the D’Oomice. the D’Anjou, and the Winter Nelis. There are no others in it with them, and they can be grown to advantage in New Zealand. The man that goes in for raising those three pears for the American mar • ket will make a fortune in six or seven years. In the height of the season you can get 20s and 24s a box of 501 b for these pears in New York, so you can consider the profit for those who land them out of season.