The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1880.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 578, 25 September 1880, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1880.

In our lust issue wo referred to the question of fvait-prcsefving. The Commissioners, in reporting upon this industry, said:-" The preparation of fruits and preserves is an industry for which New Zealand-is better adapted than almost any other country in the ■world, and the fact that it has been so little engaged in is not easily accounted for, except on the ground that money has been earned so easily in less laborious ways as to deter the people from turning their attention to this. The industry has been established on a limited scale in various parts of the Colony, and is everywhere found to be both easy and profitable, even when engaged in with but little capital and simple appliances, It does, in fact, need no artificial assistance, and the Commission are of opinion that if those ■who are engaged in it were to adopt the same means of pushing their trade that are employed by most men of business, they would speedily find themselves in a very satisfactory position, The success of any industry depends at least as much upon the degree of skill and energy with which its products are brought into the public markets as upon the quality of the products themselves. The fruit trade requires publicity and vigor in competition more than anything else, Taking into consideration, however, the great desirability of getting this thoroughly domestic, wholesome, and much-needed food industry firmly established, the Commission recommend that a vangements should be made for allowing a rebate on sugar used in the preparation of preserved fruits. The singular apathy with which (bis trade is at present followed is shown by the fact that a number of applicants have asked for a remission of the duties on sheet tin and solder, being evidently unaware that there are no duties on those article, This curious mistake as to the existing duties has been found in many other trades besides that of fruitpyeserving, and shows how little difference there is between an imaginary and a real grievance."