NEW ZEALAND FRUIT.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18778, 28 October 1932, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND FRUIT.

ON THE ENGLISH MARKET. ARRIVES IN BAD CONDITION. INQUIRY TO BE HELD. AUCKLAND, Thursday; . ‘‘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. There would be an inquiry , held here as to the cause. The only lots in good condition were from Auckland and Christchurch. The bad shipments had a serious effect on New Zealand’s export trade. Referring to an experimental shipment of passion fruit, Mr Brown said the few packages which arrived in good condition were regarded as the finest flavoured that had ever been sold at Covent Garden, but it would take many years to cultivate a demand for passion fruit in England. Tlio same remark applied to the juioe. He was in England when the trial shipment of New Zealand grapefruit arrived. His candid 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 had a chance to compete with the Spanish orange.