MARKETING OF APPLES
VALUE OF ORGANISATION. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, December 17. Discussing the forward selling of Australian apples next season, Mr. H. Stephens, a New Zealand fruit control official, said that 150,000 cases of New Zealand apples had been sold to Hamburg at 13s. 6d. to 14s. c.i.f., equivalent to at least 10s. f.o.b. Tasmanian Stunners were offered on the same market at 7s. f.o.b. It was all a matter of organisation. New Zealand apples brought 2s. 3d. more per case than Australian becouse the Dominon had built up a good name and sold on description. Mr. Stephens instanced the case .of a German who recently secured selling orders for Australian apples "m the Continent, including 100,000 cases of Victorian apples, on which he was charging 6d. per case to growers and 4d. to sellers, totalling lOd. of unnecessary charges. The New Zealand control sold at a total cost of about]a:penny.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1929, Page 8
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