APPLE EXPORT TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 792, 15 April 1910, Page 8

APPLE EXPORT TRADE.

v;T:;. MINISTERS VIEWS.:' '"■' '■•' .-/ Speaking to a Dominion representative •yesterday, the Minister for Agriculture (Hon. .1: Mackenzie) said' , that the Governnient had decided jiot to send, any exhibit of-apples across to the. Argentine .International-Show; ,The -cost would be -considerable, and-'.he -had been unable :'■ to. obtain ;sufficicntly : delinita information' ■as to the prospects of developing, a trade ;. -with" the-': Aigentinf in apples to feel justified in ordering nn exhibit.;.' -• With-: reference -to the fruit industry . 'generally, ..Air. ■ Mackenzie said , almost :.-everything-depended tin', the result of .'■Nelson /shipment, to -London.: He,, was . ;wafching-'matters , .very carefully, aiid .endeavouring 'to work. up things to a ...point .-which :nighi form the basis, for ■;. wider operations. "There is little doubt," Baid Mr; Mackenzie, "but that the sbip•ment', will be , a success, and if it'is a 1 success it- will.be a great thing for- our "country." Though, he had "not been able to get reliable information concerning the; possibilities ■ of ■ the South American ..tradiy Mr.; Mackenzie fsaid he felt persuaded that there was a market .there -.- for a limited.quantity of good fruit. But ■after all.-the great-consideration was the ■British market; where: some £4,000,000 is Annually spent in importing apples and .'pears.. : Mr. Hallam, of the Orchards . Division,.bad.just been across to Tas- ■■•• .mania in '. connection with the Nelson • shipment, "and. lie''had "reported that our fruit is quite-as-.go.od'aSiTasmania'.s, and '.comes in quite as>arly.. / ... :; ;• ;■■ :.vContinuing, ilr. Ataekenzie, remarked . ..that, if the' industry was the success he ■expected; ;it..would utilise a ■yerj': con■■■.i'siderab.lo! aiea" of country lhat ; is abso- , lutely useless for any'other purpose.' ]f ..''the-■.bspeririient- on , the Home market • succeeds,,then many more'small orphards * ; Trill be planted, sufficient in size, to keep "::.a,'.family, 'in. comfort, and- we will then; : concluded, the Minister, 'be thereby enr abled to settle numbers of people onithe ... land .who 'probably,: ; would not get a.foot- ■". iug without:: tha' succsssfal /developmcnt .of .tl'.'c ..frnit;. export : -=trade. ; ."'.'■'... ■. :.- ...-.' ■ .'ln reference to 'the above,- it is worth :-.:: noting. that; by the 1 onic, , . next Thursday, . abo.ut. Csoß' cases .of 'Tasmanian apples will ■ ■be shipped to , \ifonte Video ■ and Rio de ;.,'Janeiro. These .apples' are .being brought -across front'.HobaTt by the Atireiiic, snd' ■'_. will; be: transhipped - .in Wellington.,, Ap- " pies ' can. be "carried. to •: South America . "ordinary, cargo, whereas'to send' them ■. to England ■ cold ■ f?torage' is; ' necessa-ry." V; When • shipments of, this sizo are-'being 1 seht.aorpss; from Tasmania, : there should .>. surely be a goo<l .-opening for the: New ■' Zealand-grower. '(.■ ./■' ;; ';■ ■■■'!■■ .''-.'