APPLES WELCOMED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 124, 23 April 1927, Page 3

APPLES WELCOMED.

; AUSTRALIAN SUPPLIES. LONDON, April 8. The arrival of the Commonwealth liner Ferndale provided great publicity for Australian apples. A score of newspaper photographers and cinema men, representing 5000 cinemas _in Britain, took photographs of the High Commissioner (Sir Joseph Cook),, the States’ Agents-General, and 50 children from East Ham, schools munching apples. Sir Joseph said he hoped that the children would eat an apple a day, and thus assist Australian industry. They ate a fortnight’s quota to-day, devouring as fast as they could, while posing in a series of attitudes at the reauest of the relays of photographers. The children sang the parody, “There ain’t a’ gonna be no core, no core. We don’t care a hip If we get the pip; : There ain’t a’ gonna be no core.” They also sang a topical verse on Australian apples to the tune of the “Frothblowers* Anthem.” Finally the children were_ told to help themselves. They quickly .filled their -pockets, coats, and jumpers. Many tied the legs of their trousers and filled them.