FRUIT EXPORT

Southland Times, Issue 21850, 29 October 1932, Page 7

FRUIT EXPORT

ARRIVALS IN BAD CONDITION. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, October 27. “Normally our shipments arrive in good condition, but this year that was not so,” said Mr J. L. Brown, of Nelson, late chairman of the Fruit Control Board, on his return from London. He said shipment after shipment of apples, particularly Cox’s and Jonathans, had arrived in bad condition and there would be an inquiry held here as to the cause. The only lots in good condition were from Auckland and Christchurch. These bad shipments had had a serious effect on New Zealand’s export trade. Referring to the experimental shipment of passion fruit, he said a few packages which had arrived in good condition were regarded as the finest flavoured that had ever been sold at Coverit Garden, but it would take many years to cultivate a demand for passion fruit in England. The same remark applied to the juice. He was in England when a trial shipment of New Zealand grapefruit had arrived and his considered opinion was that Poorman oranges should never have been labelled grapefruit. Even if the Poorman orange were shipped as a marmalade orange, he did not think it would have a chance to compete with the Spanidi orange,