Fruit in New Zealand.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 7, 1 May 1907, Page 260

Fruit in New Zealand.

" Yes, I am of the opinion that there is no country in the world more particularly -suited, to the cultivation of canning fruits than Nelson in the South Island and such parts of the North Island as Hawke's Bay and the warmer lands above Auckland. Sweet, rich-flavoured fruits you cannot grow ; but considering that the Commonwealth itself — a market right at your very door — imports something like of tinned fruits annually, all of which could be grown here, you have quite sufficient to occupy your attention without troubling about the choice of early varieties. It is from this aspect of the thing that it behoves those interested in the fruitgrowing industry of New Zealand to ask at the beginning for drastic measures for the eradication of fruit pests and disease." — (Government Fruit Expert, N.S. Wales.)