AUSTRALIAN FRUIT FOR ENGLAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2553, 27 May 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN FRUIT FOR ENGLAND.

The Melbourne “Age ” says:—“ With the aid of the newprocess for freezing food and transporting it from one side of the world to the other, there is no limit to the trade which will spring up between Australia and Europe for fruit. The seasons “in the one hemisphere are exactly opposite to those of the other. In March and April, when grapes are most plentiful in Australia, they are almost unknown in England and the United States, and a shipment despatched from Melbourne or Adelaide so as 10 arrive in London in May, the very height of the season, would command

prices winch would astonish the growers in this colony and South Australia. A similar result would accrue from .shipments of oranges in June and July, pineapples in April, and peaches in January. A traffic smaller, but quite as profitable, might be carried on between Australia and India, where the inhabitants native and European, are only prevented from becoming large consumers of British fruit by its excessive price. The year 1880 will long be memorable in Australian annals from its being the year in which the Melbourne Exhibition was held, and in which the feasibility of transporting perishable commodities in ice was first established. There seenis to be no limit to the career of prosperity upon which we are now embarking.”