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copies of any official reports, documents, or returns ghee: in the 
Colonies directly or indirectly bearing upon the s subject. 
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: (Signed) D. Morris, 
The Hon. R. H. Meade, C.B., Assistant Director, 
Colonial Office. 

Enclosure. 
INFORMATION DESIRED RESPECTING COLONIAL FRutts. 
During what months are the chief fruits obtainable ? What 
quantities of each Til enemies 2 are available for export, and what 
the wholesale prices locally ? 
3. What “Ay are at present exported (1) in a fresh, or (2) ina 
preserved state ease state the destination, the quantity, and the 
estimated value of each sort. 
4. Are all or any of the fruits mentioned aa capable of being 
produced in much larger quantities than at present? If so, what steps 
if any, do local men especially desire to open or extend a trade in 
fresh or S fruits, either with the Mother Country or neigh- 
EEND States ? 
. What fruits are now imported into the Colony, either fresh or 
HA ved? S state kind, quantity, and value, and the market from 
hb a der 
= Piense add any special points of interest connected with the fruits 
of “the Colony herein reported upon which are desirable to place on 
record. 
COLONIAL OFFICE to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
Colonial Office 
86. 
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Stanhope to acknowledge the 
on 
which you suggest shou uld be answered as fully as oF Somible by the 
Colonial Governments. 
In T ly I am to request that you will state to Mr. Thiselton Dyer 
that Stanhope fully concurs as to the desirability of obtaining 
such rateimattel, and he therefore proposes to transmit a copy of your 
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