SMALL APPLES.

Wairarapa Age, 5 June 1930, Page 5

SMALL APPLES.

GOOD MARKET IN LONDON. SHIPMENTS URGED. DUNEDIN, June 4. In -an address on his investigations into the fruit industry during a trip to England, Mr. E. C. Reynolds informed delegates to the Otago Conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federatibn this afternoon that there was a strong demand At Home for small apples. Regarding sipes, the London market wanted the small apple. Some of the shops with a fashionable trade could do with the large size, but as a rule buyers wanted the small size. He remembered one ease where there was a large stack of one mark but different sizes and on it had been chalked “all over 175 sold.” This made him inquire and he had been told that this was, a frequaMi occurrence. The larger sizes had been left and unless the fashionable market was bate the large size, though better fruit, would bring less money. When local fruit had come on the market he had seen poorly-grown badly-coloured English apples, about one inch, for sale and moreover, sellingin shops everyhere. There was a ready market for small apples and if they were mature, though small, they would sell readily. He could understand tho Fruit Department not wishing these apples to be sent as New Zealand produce, but he thought in view of tho enormous waste which went on annually with this good but small fruit, it should allow a trial to be made. T-b need not be labelled and branded with the ordinary labels and brands, but something entirely different and in that way would not have a bad influence upon the standard labelled consignments. On occasions where the sca’son. had not been favourable to largo grqwth, he had seen thousands upon thousands of cases of beautiful small apples rotting on the ground. He did not see why shipments of small apples should be debarred, provided regulations were drafted whereby they were not conspicuously marked New Zealand. The London broker and the retailer would buy them for what they were, irrespective of mark.—(P.A.)