SELLING THE APPLE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6855, 20 April 1917, Page 2

SELLING THE APPLE

WHERE ARE IHE MABKffIMS In the Southern HemiaphereWr *lj|9 ket lies firstly at our own dMrs<^M|''B local trade is capable of eoorinoill^^M velopment We are still *°?^?MSS apples from Tasmania. Ourcfßf^pjß tion of apples is one of the toltflllpSß head in tbe world. Mucb ha»f*iJl|pM be done to get the fall tllH*l^KfM New Zealand market. ■^*>lfe;« Next, SoutJh America. Ss9J6|i||S recently at ■ meeting of th«'*!*Jj?|!« Co-operative Fruit Co., Ltd., Mf^^pß mas Morton, F.R.H.S., of H*flf pfM said that bis firm atone hadowhj WM 200,000 cases of apples at 6f USI Wellington fur thp South Anefi* ||k« market. Thi* market is for aoa? <! J^S?M capable of taking all oar Bo! rP'*fJ[i§te« Tben we cirrie to 6"J^^^^^B Hemisphere. Here )8, of Co'Bl*'^^ffil'B: great market. While our ore^^^^KM producing their luxurious cNJJBIB orchards of the Northern H«^M^PB are bare—our producing tbeir bare season' —our •omßMfl.^^§» their winter—our fruit arfJv*fi tt3^^gM don at its barest time. Mr T. Clifton, th*e New^SM» Comniisaioner at tbe'Ftnamt^£t|^^pS tion, spoke favouralilv of oQtl's|fS||§fl fruit to California* during _ tM^#MB season. It seemed almost iP^JJffilpllfl that we could find ■ mirk*t'^"^^^M great fruit-producing conn-tr3'^^^^« their season is from August ttj^#^g ber, and ours fromoFebruary This is tbe explanation of 00l^'4$|i||p export trade. * . London, so far. will 00^^^^m apples en consignment,* Unlike America, they will' riot Later on aft our fruit xf WsSjjM known, this may be,^hanged. 9jS^S oar greatest markets, *ep far •i"lM^ undeveloped, is the elist coaiM i North America. This is .the •*i!^^^S and most thickly-popTojated v aW»t^!^S its size, in the worlaVHere tw^2^^H ing millions waiting'for our fr?K*ijj M§l ready to open to us a tnatk*^^^^H muse be to our small country P'li§f||||] ally unlimited. ' Our competitors for tbe t'? r*iS^Sl tioned markets are Xasmania i^^^^ West Australia, but so faf''**,-S|Bl American continent is concer?^^^S m have the geographical* supremacy.Y^^^ The book "The Fruit Lands w^Sfi Nortb," issued by ttie Kaipua ''Wpi Lands Development. AssociaUoa#Jj§||| M plains the whole orcharding pr°W^p 11| fully. A copy im obtainable *wß,ffi|illi Secretary, Box 603** Welliogton- ;^|gg