LEMON-GROWING INDUSTRY.

Shannon News, 24 February 1922, Page 2

LEMON-GROWING INDUSTRY.

PROSPECTS AT TAURANGA

Tauranga, Wednesday

A, well-attended meeting of fruitgrowers was held at the Government Horticultural Station.' Mr H. i’Bryan, president of the Tauranga Citrus and FruitgroAvers’ Association, presided. A case of cured lemons taker! from cases sent to Auckland from Tauranga on January 10, ctired in Auckland, and then returned to Tauranga last week in sound condition, was exhibited at the meeting. Growers generally expressed satisfaction with the trial curing results obtained. The meeting expressed approval of the project to establish a packing shed at Tauranga as soon as the output warrants it, and appointed a committee to go into ways and means. A number of growers present furnished particulars of the estimated quantities of lemons that Avould to grown in their orchards during the coming season, the total being 3*50 cases, and this does not include the outputs from a number of other orthat locally-grown lemons may be « cured so as to reach the southern markets. The curing has been carried on at the Government Horticultural Station for the past four years, # and the lemons have been sent »s far as Wellington, where the fruit arrived in good condition.