FRUIT CANNING FACTORY.
- OHRISTCHURCH, May 1The . New " Zealand Fruit-preserving - and'Caninng Company's Factory at Dallington, aisuburb of this.city^, the first of -the kind to be established in Canterbury, was formally opened on Saturday in the' preaenoe.. •or'al'lafge. gathering. " The. factory stands in .124 acres, wKioh r-.avs been planted* with different' varieties of .profit-growing fruit trees, and is" Equipped with- modern machinery. Some of the products of the factory were sampled by those present. One speaker mentioned that on fruit ranches in California Chinese were, employed -at from 50 cents to 75 cents per day. -New Zealand could hardly- compete "against such | conditions, and th» urged that an' import duty jshould be placed on fruit in order %o ! conserve 'the interests of New Zealand fruitgrowers. ' - ,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2668, 3 May 1905, Page 23
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