AMERICAN BERRIES

Evening Star, Issue 23021, 28 July 1938, Page 12

AMERICAN BERRIES

RECEIVED IN DUNEDIN SUBJECTED TO FREEZING PROCESS On the menu at an hotel last night were strawberries which had been sent from British Columbia, Canada, to the order of Mr R. S. Black. They had not been preserved in any way, but were in splendid condition, having been frozen before despatching. Mr Black’s consignment also included a bucket each of frozen loganberries and raspberries in addition to the strawberries, and the flavour of tho fruit has not appreciably deteriorated during the voyage from Canada. The strawberries are more highly coloured than the Central Otago fruit, but cannot equal it because of the climatic conditions which prevail in that district. The consignee is very pleased with the condition in which the fruit arrived and believes that if the fruit growers of Central Otago followed tho example their fruit would be available throughout the year. The strawberries looked as if they had been picked straight. from the plant and the individual ‘fruit was not crushed in any way. The buckets are fitted with a special fastener on the rim to make them airtight, and, Mr Black states, could easily be made in Dunedin. When visiting America in 1936, Mr Black tasted strawberries which had been frozen in America and had travelled to New Zealand and back and were in perfect condition. In this case, however, the strawberries had been subjected to a very low temperature, were in bulk and were not nearly so tempting as those which arrived yesterday.