DOMINION FRUIT

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1932, Page 6

DOMINION FRUIT

■ —— * REACHES HOME IN POOR STATE. PASSION FRUIT IN HIGH REGARD t Per Press Associat ion — Copyright A [ AUCKLAND, October 27. “Normally, ’our 'Shipments, arrive ; n bad condition, hut -this ..year- they ~ ere not so bad,” said Mr J L,. Brown, of Nelson, Lie chairman of th© Fruit, Control Board, on his return from -Loadon. He ssd‘d that-shipment after shipment of. apples, partienlarly. Cox’s- : and Jonathans,. arrived in bad condition.. There woidd .be an inquiry -fig-ld here as to : the cause. . .-. • Th© only lots in gcod condition were from Auckland and Christchurch. These bad shipments had a serious effect on New Zealand’s export trade. . Referring to an experimental «hip-m-ent of passion fruit, he- sa : d that a ■fpw packages which arrived in good "condition were regarded as the finest flavoured; that hrd ever been sold at Co vent Garden, bub it would take ~njinnf years, to cultivate the demand f<pr passion fruit in England. The •same remark applied to the juice. He was-in England when the trial shvnment of New Zealand grape fruit arrived, and' his’ considered opinion vyas that poorman oranges should rever have been labelled as grape fruit.; Even if the pcorman orange were shipped as marmalade orange, ne did not* think it would have a, chance to compete with the# orange.