ORANCES IN THE NORTH

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12008, 10 December 1924, Page 11

ORANCES IN THE NORTH

QUALITY AND FLAVOUR, j SIR HEATON RHODES IMPRESSED. In View of the general prospeots of a strong.- revival in North Auokland of. the grownng of lembns-and oranges,- it was arranged thq£ a good supply of WhSnga-rei-groWn oranges .. ana - "grape fruit” should figure prominently on the break)fast menu for "Sir R.) Heaton Rhodes and Mr Macintosh Ellis, chief of the Forestry Department. • Mr lHlis, a Canadian, who is familiar with -the’ orangeb of California and Florida, and also an authority on American grape -fruit, said that the local oranges were equal in flavour to the best American oireges. and the "northern grape , fruit,- which is • the Poorman orange, was equal-in every Way to the best Florida gt ape fruit, whioh is ’ suPerior to the Californian grapo fruit. . Sij- Heaton Rhodes said it was the‘first time he had really sampled Now Zealand oranges, and he was surprised to find, that tfie, north, could" produce oranges of such flue flavour. ' -