N.Z. FRUIT AT HOME

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19622, 17 October 1933, Page 6

N.Z. FRUIT AT HOME

LACK OF PUBLICITY ALLEGED. By T«:egrapn Press Association WELLINGTON. October 16 Disappointment at the manner in which New Zealand apples are being advertised in England is expressed by Mr G. E. Fownes. who returned, with Mrs Fownes. by the Marama from a health trip Home. Mr Fownes said that during the whole of his stay in England he saw only one big advertisement of New Zealand fruit, and that was an old one. He understood that the trouble lay in givmg the distribution to one firm. A Covent Garden merchant, with whom he had spoken told him that under the previous arrangement New Zealand fruit went into many of the high-class restaurants and hotels, but now it was probably very difficult to get it at any of those places. The merchant added that he considered New Zealand apples the best graded of all overseas fruit, and he regretted that the original arrangement was not still in operation. The merchant mentioned that he was leaving for Canada to arrange for Canadian apples to be sold on the English market, ah hough he very much preferred not to compete with New Zealand apples, of which his Arm had sold many thousands of cases.