APPLE SEASON OPENS

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 88, 15 April 1931, Page 7

APPLE SEASON OPENS

Display of New-Zealand Fruit in London. MRS. SNOWDEN'S PRAISE. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 14. Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, formally opened the apple season at New Zealand House. She enthusiastically described her visit to the Dominion in 1914, and stated that she had never been in a country so lovely. Mrs. Snowden was overwhelmed with the beauty of the present exhibit and highly congratulated the organisers. She gratefully accepted from Lady Wilford, wife of the New Zealand High Commissioner, a basket of apples, which she promised to share with the Chancellor. Apples were one of the principal articles of food in their home, she said. She was later photographed eating an apple in front of an artistic display of fruit. Sir Thomas Wilford described the growth of the apple trade and hoped that ere long the export to Britain would reach 2,000,000 cases. He emphasised the mutual dependence of New Zealand on the Motherland, and pointed out that money spent on New Zealand products was returned in payment for British goods. New Zealanders present at the ceremony included: Mr. A. M. Samuel, M.P., Sir Charles Holuswortli, Dr. McNaughten, and Mr. Cecil Wray.