LEMON-GROWING INDUSTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18017, 16 February 1922, Page 8

LEMON-GROWING INDUSTRY.

PROSPECTS AT TAURANGA. [by tkleobaph.—own cokrespondknt.J TAURANGA, Wednesday. A well attended meeting of fruitgrowers was held at the Government Horticultural Station. Mr. H. P. Bryan, president of the Tauranga Citrus and Fruitgrowers' Association, presided. A case of cured lemons takon from cases Bent to Auckland from Tauranga on •January 10, cured in Auckland, and then returned to Tauranga last weok in sound condition, was exhibited at the meeting. Growers generally expressed satisfaction with the trial curing results obtained. The meeting expressed approval of the projeot to establish a packing shed at Tauranga as soon as the output warrants it, and appointed a committee to go into ways and means, A number of growers present furnished particulars of the estimated quantities of lemons that would be grown in their orchards during the coming season, the total being 3450 cases, and this does not include the outputs from a number of other orchards, It is now safe to assume that locally-grown lemons may be cured so as to reach tho Southern markets. The curing has been carried on at the Government Horticultural Station for the past four years, and the lemons have been sent as far as Wellington, where the fruit arrived in good condition.