FRUIT AND FISH

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1929, Page 6

FRUIT AND FISH

AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIES

(Australian Press Association)

SYDNEY,. July 26

At the fruit marketing conference at Sydney to-day, the need for proper organisation of the Australian fruit trade if it is to hold its own against American competition' in British markets, was stressed. ■ - - • ■ •

. It was stated that whereas there was a’ enormous crop of apples in Australia last year, the position w.pulcl. be reversed this"year. Tasmania :: and west fall a were the Only States' with normal, crops. Eight hundred., thousand cases of American apples were marketed in England last May.

DEVELOPMENT OF FISHERIES

Representatives of the Fisheries Departments of the Commonwealth met in conference to-day, and discussed practical measures for the development of Australian fisheries, which are entirely unexploited; with the result that the average Australian consumed only about fourteen pounds of fish annually, compared with-twenty-five in New Zealand and forty in Britain.

Mr H. Gepp (Chairman of the Migration Comriiission) outlined a scheme for research, and committees were appointed to investigate the- potentialities of Commonwealth fish resources. Mr Gepp added that Australians were fish hungry and fish starved.