AUSTRALIAN WINE
<r_OK 001 OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ' SYDNEY, 28th June. ' It is (stated by travellers in the wine trade that the greater part of the Australian trade with New Zealand has^een lost since the reciprocity treaty entered into by tire Dominion with South Africa came into force. The unfortunate tiling is, however, that the. similarity of initials frequently causes. to arise confusion in regard to the .country of origin. "S.A." stands equally, for South Africa or South Australia, the State which produces most wiae in the Commonwealth. As the Seffth' Australian product is admittedly of superior quality, it can easily be seen how much damage can be done to the prestige of the wines of this State by deliberate or unintentional substitution of the South African nroduction. It is stated.-that many of the South African wine travellers deliberately represented their'wares as South Australian, their firms having copied the nomenclature and labels of, the Australian State asclosely as possible.
As South Australia produces more wine than all the other States combined, and has built up a reputation for quality by years of painstaking effort., the blow is a serious one alike to her trade and prestige. ,
South Africa, it may be remembered, annexed Australian wattles some years ago, and even sought to use the wattle blossom as a national emblem.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 7, 8 July 1922, Page 12
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218AUSTRALIAN WINE Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 7, 8 July 1922, Page 12
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