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Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cape of Good Hope in one serie 
Hemisphere. Ima subsequent series it was proposed to publish reports 
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however, we 
Queensland, and hence these do not appear in the present Bulletin. 
VICTORIA, 
The Report received respecting the fruits of this Colony is of a very 
ding the Report to the Government of 
results as follows :— 
_ As regards the quantities of each kind of fruit available for export, 
I may state that so far it appears to me that the quantities produced are 
not in excess of local requirements, but there is reason to believe that 
shortly the production will exceed our wants. 
the fruits mentioned below are capable of being pro- 
duced in much larger quantities than at present, and will be produced if 
sufficient inducement offers 
As he enquiry as to what steps are necessary to start or 
develop a fruit trade, and what inducements local men desire to ope 
e at in fresh or preserved fruits, I may state that cheaper 
rices ving been realized at di d Colonial 
Exhibition induced him to try a shipment of fruit as an experiment, and 
he fou h ing, to the cost of packing, freight, an 
charges imposed by the consignees for commission harfage, rates, &c., 
Fruit-growers here could not be relied upon for packing and placing 
a first-class fruit in boxes ready for exporting, owing to the fact that 
class fruit suitable for exporting grown here, and the want of material, 
such as cork sawdust, for packing fruit, isanother drawback. The dealer 
ment, and from indifferent packing and carelessness in han the 
fruit, 50 per cent. of it was useless.: He i 
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after its arrival. Foreign grow 
"treating fruit which the growers here lacked. Here orchards were only 
