FOURTEENTH EXHIBITION OF C0L0NIAL-6R0WN B^RtlltS. CCXXXVil 



this Society can give, and that is something to be proud of ; we 

 appreciate it very much indeed. Having had experience during a large 

 number of years, I know that people exhibiting here,, whether they win 

 a prize or not, are perfectly satisfied that justice has been done, and 

 we all feel proud of it. It is only a few years since we took up com- 

 mercial fruit-growing. It was first started by Lord Aberdeen. He 

 bought an estate of 13,000 acres, and was the first to demonstrate that 

 fruit could be grown with us on a commercial basis. That led other 

 people to go into the industry, with the result w^hich you see to-day. 

 If there is anything finer to be seen in the world, I do not know where 

 you can -see it; besides which, this fruit has not been grown by men 

 who have been trained for a lifetime in the work. You can go out 

 there, and you will find a man who left the City of London only a few 

 years agO', but he has captured a prize, and he now knows more about 

 fruit-growing than any of us. It is the climate and the sun and the 

 glorious weather, to which we attribute this great and grand success 

 that British Columbia has achieved here to-day. A few years ago we 

 had not an apple to sell. Last year there were brought to British 

 Columbia, I think, over 2,000,000 dollars for fruit alone. I am not 

 sure but that in a few years' time it will be ten times as much for 

 fruit alone. 



But that is only one of the great industries of British Columbia. 

 We have gold, silver, lead, zinc, iron, fish, timber, and everything that 

 goes tO' make a great nation, and a country that will grow wheat for 

 years, enough to supply the wdiole of England. That is in British 

 Columbia alone, to say nothing about the vast provinces of Manitoba 

 and others of the great wheat-producing districts of Canada. We 

 ought to be proud that we are under the great and glorious flag, the 

 " Union Jack. " You need never go outside the bounds of our Colonies 

 to get all that this great and glorious nation will require for anything 

 that goes to make a great nation. I thank you very much indeed for 

 having given me the pleasure of saying a few words as Minister of 

 Finance and Agriculture for British Columbia. I wish to thank you 

 all, and I hope and trust that this Society will go on in the future doing 

 as good work as it has done in the past. On behalf of the Province of 

 British Columbia, I shall have very great pleasure indeed in subscribing 

 twenty-five guineas towards the expenses of this Show. 



The Hon. H. J. Turner: Sir Trevor and Gentlemen, — I assure 

 you it gives me great pleasure to have the honour of being one of the 

 responders to this toast. It is very gratifying, I think, that we have 

 here the Minister of Agriculture and Finance. He has just indicated 

 that he is the Minister of Finance by, giving what I think is only due 

 from British Columbia to this Society, except that I only wish we 

 , could double it. 



I have said it gives me great pleasure to be one of the responders 

 to this toast, and I have very good reasons for saying that, because 

 I have seen the history of these Colonial Fruit Shows from the begin- 

 ning. When I came to England some nine years ago, I was already 



