NATIONAL FRUIT SHOW.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15895, 8 May 1917, Page 5

NATIONAL FRUIT SHOW.

Interviewed by a Dunedin "Star" reporter on Saturday, Mr Geo. A. Green, the lion, secretary of the Auckland Executive of the National Fruit Show Committee, stated that, in view of th§ decision to hold the 1918 show in Auckland, the 1917 committee have already asked the Federation Executive to s-ato in writing what assistance they require from the Auckland committee. Auckland will take up th© question of the 1918 show with enthusiasm, and will do everything possiblo to enable Dominion fruitgrowers to make it the largest, most varied, and the best from an educational point of view of any fru',u show ever held in this Dominion. They have a lot of suggestions for improving the schedule and providing several new and interesting features. The fact that Mr E. C. Walton (the chairman of the committe responsible for the Auckland exhibit) is now a director of the Federation should have a beneficial effect and help to establish a feeling of mutual confidence between the directors and the Auckland Executive, this making for the smooth working of the 1918 show.

The suggestion has been made that future shoivs should be confined io apples. This suggestion does not meet with -Mr Green'g approval. He says that Ms executive strongly urged, however, tnat fruit product H should be mixed up with fruit in the district exhibits, but should be provided for in a separate class, thus adding variety to the show and making it more interesting to visitors. The suggestion to confine the national show to apples wouTd, in Mr Green's opinion, be a great mistake, as although, apples are the great staple fruit of New Zealand many other classes of fruit are sccond only in importance and are of immense value in our total of economic fruit products. And wifchottt such, visitors would fail to gain anything like the grasp they should of th© great _ commercial importance of tie Dominion fruit industry.