EXPORT OF APPLES.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12738, 9 March 1910, Page 2

EXPORT OF APPLES.

TRIAL SHIPMENT FROM NELSON OVER 5000 CASES SECURED. Thanks to the enterprise and energy of Messrs E. Buxton and Co., Ltd., and the noble response of growers, a trial shipment of over live thousand cases of apples has been secured for the London market. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Paparoa will call at Nelson for the shipment on or about March | 26th, and the firm mentioned are ar- j ranging with the growers to have their produce here in ample time. The wood, wool, and paper for wrap- ' ping and packing has arrived, and is ; now being sent out to growers. Mr ; F. R. Hallam, Government orchard i inspector, who went to Tasmania un- ! der instructions from the Government \ to ascertain the latest methods of packing and grading apples for export, is expected to return to Nelson at. the end of the week, and will immediately proceed to Motueka and surrounding districts to impart to growers the knowledge he has obtained during his visit. Mr F. 0. Hamilton (of Messrs Buxton and Co., Ltd.) who went to Tasmania at the same time as Mr Hallam, has forwarded to his firm live cases of apples taken from a shipment of 50,000 ready to be. sent from Hobart to London by the P. and 0. Company's new steamer Malwa. Fe stated the following week another 50,000 cases were to be shipped, and that space had been secured for 500,000 cases. The cases forwarded by Mr Hamilton will be on view at Messrs Buxton and Co.'s premises until Thursday next, when they will be sent on j to Motueka. The varieties sent areScarlet Permain, New York Pippin, Ribston Pippin^ French- Crab, and Prince Alfred. The apples, which have been carefully packed, are rather small in size, although there are some excellent specimens of Prince ; Alfreds, and the apples from this district compare more than favourably with the Tasmanian product. Therefore, it is to be hoped that the growers will meet with their reward. Appended is the list of growers who are shipping by the Paparoa, together with the quantities to be sent : — Cases W. Eginton, Motueka 20 W. Taylor, do. 20 J. Satherley, do. 20 B. Lloyd, Motueka Wharf 500 J. G. Beatson, Ngatimoti 30 A. Everett, Nelson 300 Geo. Dee, Stoke 40 A. McKee, Riwaka 250 A. E. Higgins, Spring Grove 50 Thos. Goodall, Lower Moutere 10 J. E. Hill, Ngatimoti 10 W. Pattie, Riwaka 10 T. Franklyn, Sandy Bay 25 W. Cederman, Riwaka 25 Chas. Fry, do. 10 Ernest James, Umakumi 50 M. Simpson, Motueka 40 R. Croudis, Orinoco 10 H. Everett Umakura 500 G. Boyce, Motueka 50 W. Atkins, do. 20 H. Papns, do. 10 A. McGlashan, do. 20 G. Silcock, Brightwater 50 Lightband and Son, do. 60 H. H. Beatson, Ngatimoti 50 J. Chapman, Pangatotara 30 J. L. Whelan, Ngatimoti 20 Chas. R. Heath, do. 40 J. W. G. Beatson, do. 30 E. Holyoake, do. 10 Thos. Thomson, do. 100 G. M. Deck, Umakura 70 H. C. Holyoake, Riwaka 20 W. D. Askew, do. 25 Thos. Robinson, Stoke 150 J. F. Allcott, Lower Moutere 100 Sidney Rowling, Riwaka 100 A. McLean, TJmakuri 20 V. and W. Rowling, Riwaka 50 H Holdawav, Lower Moutere 80 Ohas. Mackay, do. 100 E. F. Anderson, Riwaka 250 Geo. Grooby, Pangatotara 150 D. Drummond, Braeburn 75 Jas. Drummond, do. 100 A. P. Allport, Stoke 20 Leonard Pa'ynter, do 40 W. Best, Stoke - 50 Jas Remnant, Ngatimoti 50 J. W. Wells, do. 40 H. Thomason, do. 50 W. Suckling, Motueka 20 David E. Fry, Umakuri 70 A. Budden and Son, Riwaka 25 F. Langbein, Stoke 50 L. Everett, Umakuri 20 J. A. Askew, Riwaka 15 S. M. Askew, do. 35 F. Holder, do. 50 S. Eginton, Motueka 20 • E. C. Goodall, Riwaka 20 B. Cropp, Wai-iti 25 ( L. C. Duncan, Umukuri 10 J. D. Knowles, Ngatimoti 50 C. Low, Motueka wharf 40 T. Evans, Motueka 20 E. B. Izard, Stoke 20 H. Trewavas, Motueka 25 ' C. Jenkins, Riwaka 100 A. D. Woolf, Sandy Bay 40 E. S. Woolf, do. 50 J. Green. Ngatimoti 10 J. A. Gay, do. - 20 Thos. Pattie, Riwaka 50 Kurtzhals, Stoke 200 W. A. Bryant, Brightwater 50 R. F. Hudson Motueka 100 Chas. Wix, Richmond 20 F. Holyoake 30 Thos. Baird, Motupipi- 10 J. A. Newport, "Druwhenua, Takaka 18 RD. Fenton, Spring Grove 30 5191