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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1919, Page 3

Last wek the schooner Jubilee brought a trial shipment of Niue Island bananas to Auckland. This is the first fruit brought from Niue for the Auckland market % and it is hoped that a regular trade will Ibe opened up. About 50 casejg of fruit were in the consignment, and, in spite of the long trip and rough weather, the bananas arrived in good condition.

The "Citizen," London, says: "New Zealand is getting a power in butter and cheese, and its fruit industry is coming to the front. It would appear that a number of people with a limited amount of capital are intending to be interested in the development of the Dominion. Not that there is any cheap land to be allowed them, but they are quite content to take their chance wih those who, by their enterprise_ have helped to build up the Dominion."

The agricultural contributor to the I "Morning Post" is surprised that New Zealand is not sending more cocksfoot seed to England. "The failure of New Zealand," he says, "to compete with Denmark as a source of supply for cocksfoot seed is a disagreeable fact. When the war broke out hard fescue and cocksfoot, which do not seed well in England, were profitable little appanages of our New Zealand fellow subjects. New Zealand fescue, sold as 'chewings,' has for five years been going on a price higher and higher, until other fescues are replacing it, while Danish fescues since a year ago have so beaten the New Zealand out of the field that few firms quote the old familiar article." Fescues and peas are all more or less scarce, and New Zealand is expected to ship more freely in the near future.