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of money into the country by tackling this branch of the fruit 

 trade in the right spirit. We may add that there is very little 

 demand for dried peaches in England. 



Our opening statement will, we feel satisfied, be borne out by 

 our later experience in this branch of the trade. Our best 

 market will be a home one for years to come. There is no more 

 portable commodity, and none more palatable, than dried fruit of 

 good quality, and the fault is ours if it does not take an impor- 

 tant place in the mining camps, and prospecting kits, throughout 

 the Northern Territories. 



