FRUIT INSPECTION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1273, 31 October 1911, Page 8

FRUIT INSPECTION.

AUSTRALIAN EXPORTS TO NEW ZEALAND. According to latest Sydney advices, Mr. f. C. Hunt, M.L.A., is in receipt of a ommunication from tho Department of Agriculture statin'', with rel'oreneo to_the leputation recently introduced by him o the Minister regarding Hie inspection if fruit exported to New Zealand, that, is the Department had not yet been ad■ised that the New Zealand regulations, •equiring 10 per cent, of the consignncnts of fruit to 1)3 tipped out and inpccted at Sydney prior to shipment, lincl »esn gazetted, tiie Minister had decided o discontinue tho practice till the Detriment was officially informed that the •emulations had como into force, but any rilit for export in future would he careiillv inspected as heretofore, mjmis tho lumping. Complaints were recently made to the department' of Agriculture of Ihe stringnt conditions which were being enforced n connection with the shipment of fruit rom this State to Nov.- Zealand, says the "Sydney Morning Herald," but as showing ho necessity for strict' supervision the folowing remarks from the New Zealand iovernment Director of Orchards nro incresting. They refer to a recent shipment, i-hich reached New Zealand last: month:— "The fruit, which was very poor in luality, being about third-class, and very iad at that, had the appearance of liavng been some considerable time in the narkets before shipment, and was landed n very bad condition. The blams cantot in this instance be attached to the (earner, as the fruit was carried above look, and must have been in bad order leforo shipment. It,' is fruit of such inerior quality and bad condition that comnands tow prices in our markets, ,nd it certainly docs not tend to improve ho fruit trade generally. The fruit which ame forward by this steamer was a large onsignment', and it was very noticeable hat while that shipped by growers was f good quality and arrived in good conation, that shipped by the dealers was inerior in quality, and opened up very ladly. SHEEP FROM ENGLAND. 110HNEY JIARSII AND SOUTHDOWNS. Latest English files stato that among ho Komney Marsh sheep being exported his autumn, fifty-four ewes and a. shearing rani from Mr. Arthur Finn's .Wcstl'oke Flock will shortly leave for New ealand. This (says tho paper in which he paragraph appears) is probaby. one f the largest consignments ever sent rom Kent to that country, and the transction is entirely duo to the success of he sheep sent out from Westbroke last eason. The New Zealand Hocks are about to be trengthened by the addition of three ivo-tooth Southdown eivos, which are ow on their way from England to the rder of Mr. James Knight, of Feilding. 'he importations como from tho flocks f Sir J. Coleman, Surrey. Ono of the rio was never beaten in the show ring .5 a lamb, and has.Koyal Show honours, n nine appearances this year she was .warded eight firsts and one second irize.