IN VINO VERITAS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 47, 23 February 1903, Page 3

IN VINO VERITAS.

PER PRESS ASSOCTATT9N. j Received 23, 0.2 a.m. j Sydney, February 22. 1 Tho secrstiry of the New South; Wales Fruit Growers Aisociation, '■ writing from Auckland, says that New Zealand as a market for fruit products of any kind will soon be a thing of the past. The New South Wales Agricultural Department and various growers |, associations have been striving with the j i New Zetland Government fer the rci msval of the prohibition on grapes, and . the Premier sends b;ck the old j reply to each new requisition, "That'. the matter will bo reconsidered." The writer says emphatically that Mr Seddon never for one moment entertained a conciliatory thought! about tbe importation of New South | i Wales grapes, as ha is afraid of in- 1 dustrial antagonism and condemnation; of any movement that might interfere j with local producers. In pract'ee ii is plainly adeliberite and intentional restriction of all imporls that might bd produced locally. The wri'er recounts a series of experiments wi'h Au«tra'ian and New> Zealand wines at Wellington. Most, of the New Zealasd wines were clarets | made at the Government farm?, and I tho3i preeent were j'lMWt that their h wines more tban held their own against Australian win?s more than three times ■ their age. It is now prety certain the. New Zealand Government will let the'; result of this alleged t?st be known all lover the world. He advieed Aw-tra-, lian vignerons to'aire immediate u:tion to ascertain tho exact conditions ucder i which the test* were made.