FRUIT EXPORT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 17 August 1910, Page 6

FRUIT EXPORT.

TASMANIA FINDING NEW MARKETS.

The pioneering work in exploiting new markets for upple s decided 01. l»y Tasuianian growers is not without significance to the growers of thi:country-. The .decision of the Ho bart Conference to this end, reported by cable, ii no doubt the result of the recent proposal of Tasmaiiian growers to deduct Is a case from al< shipments made in order to providt a fund for testing new markets, the idea being to hud outlets in Eastern markets. Truit has already been shipped from Tasmania to the Argentine, and, it is said, with a fail amount of success. To test the big North American market would appear to be a more risky- proceeding. An import duty will have to be reckoned with, and meanwhile California is making a strong bid to cater to the Eastern markets of the 3tate s right throughout the year. Extensive cool storage works have been decided on, in order that fruit may be held so that the export nunbe regulated, and Californian fruit has an open field on the New York market. However, just 'between seasons there should be a good de raand for Tasmanian fruit in the great American city. Should the Tasmanian venture prove successful it will have the desirable effect'of curtailing its supplies to British and German markets, which will eertainlv not be to the disadvantage of the New Zealand grower.