CAN WE NOT SHARE ?

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 3

CAN WE NOT SHARE ?

, TO THH EDITOIt. Sir, — I notico in your columns to-day a lettpr signed "Emulation," in whjrh 'iho writer mentions that the number or bteamer3 in ihe apple trade bctv.oen London and Ta? mania is no iers than tv.unly-lhron. V. hen one sros such q.arkliiig s.catcmci\tH as that it inaln;i, unu wuulw why wo can. not also lake part in the very pr&fiablo industry of appip-gruwing Irue, \so have been siow in availing ourschej of the opportunity of findmtj a market in the ->lo(hpr Country foi any apple=. But it is not too laic ji:l tor v, to take a strp in, that direction. For wo can in this Dominion product) apples of rertam' kinds, such as tho ribstouq pippin and the •stunner pippin, equal to anything fsrouu in Tasmania.. And any ow with pxpciionco knows that tho riLalom? ur tluimot would be prof cried in tho London mari.sU befoio tho Tasiaanian Xew York pippin, nnd thoeo two parlicular varieties cannot be grown to the came perfection 'in Tasmania as they can bo grown in XcW Zealand. I have visited all the principal applrgrowing districts of Tasmania, and al^o those of the Soulh Island of Now 7jhhlaud, and 1 have seen as fine apples grown m Canterbury ai can be seen in any. part of the world. Their keeping ciualities' avo all that can be desired, and thoir flavour indisputable. So T do not sco -why wo should look on so quietly and let our neighbour? have all this profitable littletrade to themselves while v/e tuo might share. It all lave in tho growers' hands — ■ all they have got to do is to co-operate. And I am sure they can safely rely on every possible assistance from the Government.—l am I'tc, HtpIJETtN GOTH. Wellington, 3rd Fobiuary.