A GLUT IN APPLES
. NO CHAJSTCE TO EOPORT. VICTORIAN AND TASMANIAN GROWERS SUFFER; Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ' MELBOURNE, April 12. Owing to the want of. shipping space* Victoria and Tasmania have four million cases of apples that cannot be exported. Efforts are being made to save heavy losses to growers by creating a wider local demand. ' ■~..•
TOO MANY APPLES. To eat as many apples as possible is one of the new national obligations imposed on us as a result of the .war. "The Australian apple harvest is 5,000,000 cases. Only a little more than 1,000,000 cases can, be exported. The rest must be eaten in Australia or go to waste, and the waste of 4,000,000 cases, would mean a loss of about £500,000 that would cripple many orohardists. Of course, the crippling, of a primary industry is a bad thing for everybody. There is apparently no way out•but to eat apples as we never ate them before;' It ie a tradition that apples are splendid fodder -for the brain. If this is correct, and we do our duty to the apple growers, we have the prospectoorf r .Australians being for some months at least' the brsiniesfrpeople on the globe. ■-■;.'■•
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16668, 13 April 1916, Page 4
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