DRYING APPLES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20526, 9 April 1941, Page 2

DRYING APPLES

USE OF SURPLUS, CROP

SYDNEY EXPERT'S VIEW

“It is strange in these days of apple gluts, when hundreds of millions of perfectly good fruit must go to waste, that so little is done to establish the dried fruits industry on a large scale, and to educate the people to the value of the fruit in this form,” said Mr. A. S. Glen, of Sydney, a dehydration expert, with wide experience of the industry in the United States, when discussing ways of saving portion of Australia's “unwanted” crop. “Modern dehydration is so efficient,” Mr. Glen said, “that I can only express amazement that it has not been adopted extensively in Australia. Valuable at any time, in these days of shipping shortage and of the call tc provide fruit—and vegetables, too—for so many Australian soldiers in camp the whole year round, as well as the forcos of the Middle and Far East, it seems to me that we are missing a golden opportunity to develop a type of business eminently suitable to Australia.”