AUSTRALIAN FRUIT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17608, 26 October 1931, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN FRUIT

MARKETS IN CANADA SYDNEY, Oct. 12. Mr. W. Ranger, manager of the Queensland .Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing, believes there arc wider markets for Australian canned and fresh fruits iii Canada.than have yet been exploited. He returned by the Niagara from a business trip to Canada and England. One result of the new trade treaty with Canada, Mr. Ranger thinks, may be to replace Canada’s imports of Hawaiian canned pineapples with Queensland pineapples. Canada’s trade in pineapples with Hawaii has been between .150,000 and 175,000 cases a year, each case containing two dozen tins. As a result of his visit, Queensland will be able to dispose of her surplus of about 150,000 cases to Canada. More Uiau 100,000 cases have been , sent already. They are being shipped to, Vancouver and Montreal and then sent to all parts of the Dominion.

Mr. Ranger thinks Australia has touched only the fringe of the Canadian market for oranges and that there is room for enormous expansion. Large quantities of grapes may also be sent, Particularly if better transport, facilities to the eastern ports are made available. .At present it; takes about seven weeks to send fruit to Montreal.