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Apples: apple crates

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Apples: apple crates

The vibrant colours of different apple varieties are seen in these crates at the cool stores of ENZA (formerly the New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board) in Stoke. The Nelson region is second only to Hawke’s Bay in terms of apple production, and accounts for one-third of New Zealand’s apple crop.

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Carl Walrond, Nelson places – Nelson surrounds and suburbs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29000/apples-apple-crates (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 31 August 2010, updated 22 April 2015.