ORANGES AND MARMALADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 798, 19 October 1929, Page 7

ORANGES AND MARMALADE

PELICIOUS “OAK” MARMALADE FOR NEW ZEALANDERS While Auckland orange - growers were onco faced with a poor and unremunera tive outlet for their crops, Messrs. Thompson and Hills, Ltd., the local, but Dominion-famed, manufacturers of the excellent “Oak” Fruit preserves, were experimenting with Xe w Zealand oranges, and after several trials were successful in proving that a very appetising and highclass marmalade could be produced from the then rather despised “Poorman” orange. The Quality of this production has since so appealed to the palate of the >'ew Zealand public that the sales of •Oak” Orange Marmalade have increased by leaps and bounds, throughout the length and breadth of the country. In fact to such an extent that for a time the supply of New Zealand oranges was unable to meet these people’s requirements. In recent years Messrs. Thompson and Hills, Ltd., have paid out some thousands of pounds to the orangegrowers of the Auckland Province, for the production of their expanding proves, which in turn is sold us marmalade in every town and village from, the North Cape to the Bluff. These facts are commended for earnest thought to the “man on the land,” who has “no time” for the secondary industries. Every man. woman and child who spreads the delicious “Oak” Marmalade on their breakfast bread gives enjoyment to themselves and adds profit and prosperity to the people of the Auckland Province.