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FRUIT 'S OF QUEENSLAND. 



Washington Navel Oranges, Barcaldine District, Central Line. 



that, if the industry were taken up in the same business-like manner that it ha& 

 been done in California and Florida, we could easily hold our own against 

 any part of the world. In comparing Queensland with the rest of the world) 

 we have the advantage also shared by New South Wales and South Africa - 

 of ripening our fruit at a time of the year which is the off season in the citrus- 

 producing countries to the north of the equator, so that our fruit does not 

 clash with theirs, their ripening period and ours being at different times of 

 the year. As regards our Australian market, our fruit ripening earlier than* 



