We were Importing £68,000 worth of Green Fruit alone Annually,

[unclear: t] to speak of the enormous quantities of canned and dried fruits also brought in, [unclear: d] there was no reason, save that of neglecting our own resources, why New Zealand would send away a penny for these fruits. He considered it surprising that the growth o[unclear: f] the smaller and more easily cultivated fruits was so much neglected in the [unclear: lony], seeing there was such a demand for them. A New Zealand preserving fir[unclear: m] quite recently asked him if he could purchase for them for next season fifty ton[unclear: s] strawberries. They were prepared at any time to take fifty tons of that fruit, or raspberries, or of black currants, or of each of them. They told him that the[unclear: y] a splendid market for these preserves in Australia, and that if they were anyway [unclear: red] of a supply of fruit they could easily exceed the amount mentioned. Thi[unclear: s] and other manufacturers had complained that they could never get enough fru[unclear: it], that the small production and supply prevented them from extending their

Mr. Blackmore would not admit that