MUST THEY BE BURNT?
GLUT OF APPLE TREES IN THE DOMINION. Evidence as to the glut of apple trees.' in New Zealand was given before the Industries Committee last week by Mr. Robert Nairn (president) and Mr. G. A. Green (seoretary) of the New Zealand Nurserymen's Association. The latter stated that he had jutt covered 4000 miles, visiting the nurseries in the Dominion, and there were probably about a million apple trees in excess of local | requirements. There was only borne ; planting going on now. Commercial (plantations had practically ceased, not, ay bad been stated in the press, because the bottom bad fallen out of th* market, but because of the shortage of labor, due to the war. The calling up of the Second Division was the final touch to the commercial planting. The present stock was valued fit £50,000, at reasonable market rates, and that was a large item to the nurserymen of the Dominion. The trees had" been grown practically at the request of the Minister for Agriculture and the Orchard Division, so that they would bo free from the diseases brought over by imported trees.
The- witness urged that the trees s'hould be used under the repatriation scheme for fruit tree planting by returned soldiers, and that the Government should also give a subsidy for two or three ships in May and June, 1020, to enable them to dispose of the trees in the overseas markets, and also to assist them in opening up and developing the market, both for trees and fruit. If something could not be done to make use of the trees, they would have to be burnt.
Members of the committee suggested tliat to seiul apple trees to South America might cut Iho throat of the apple-exporting business to those parts; but the witnesses stated that the nurserymen were alf.o the largest applegrowers, so would not be likely to do anything that would have such an efl'ect; and the market for apples in South America was so large that the apples that could be grown there could only meet a very small part of it.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1919, Page 6
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352MUST THEY BE BURNT? Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1919, Page 6
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