DRIED APPLE TEST

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 124, 28 May 1942, Page 3

DRIED APPLE TEST

SAMPLE SENT To BRITAIN" Inl rcstaitl to the recent cabled report of the interest taken in New Zealand fined apples in London. Mr. 1.. \y Tiller fruit re.-earch officer of the Department vf„ ! ' :mtl Inf, ««trial Research, ad-cei-n'inL Vv no rc!) , nrl frora London conreccivecl samples sent had yet been prices rulinpr in Great Britain at present it was uneconomic to subsidise an export trade in New Zealand dried si'nidH 1 Ka V'* ' n case fiie position th e. future, it was deemed Ml\ sable to determine whether the New Zealand protlui i would be acceptable 011 the Enßlish market. Accordinelv. samples of tho dried prorluit manufactured commercially from named varieties Wen!i -,V M 1,",1, 1 «""l»les Of the standard blend a\,ulable on the New Zealand markct - sent to London bv the denartment for (est and report. " He pointed out that the industrv was Iready eslal.li.hocl in this country and had been functioning successfully for r ni'i i t - vcars - "" a ''■iff expansion were md fe!-n°d l! T° l | I(1 bc npressal '. v to install " ' e, P < ehydrators. but these could he , He Dominion. The onlv plant V ' "ould have to be imported would be peeling, coring and slicing machinery.