It is interesting to learn that the Australian Government are prepar-jing to make another push for the Shanghai market. When Mr: Louey Pang, a well-known business man Daily except Sunday:
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Pare of lis tak wat os sepecnty 20a. servic, flowed by a nwunel from' Sydney here spent nee? tive of the Australian Dried Fruits Board, which is controlled by Commonwealth Markets and Mig:
Department. Practically the dried fruit trade in China Present is done wit Jamounts to about 8,000 tons a year. [Of the excellence ' of Australis fruits, fresh or dried, there can question, In recent years English trade in the latter swung round remarkably, the old preference for Levant ' products giving way to a taste for the high lity fruits from the Mildura The Australian seedies raisin or sultana is a particularly fine product—Australians say -better than any other; and we are told that before export, the. sultanas go through a vacuum process which kills all germ eggs. The Australian Government are also keen on pushing jams, preserves," tinned things generally, biscuits apples, oranges and other fruits, Great eare,-we fare told, has been taken to meet complaints of the past and to ensure that the packing, labelling and general presentation of goods are efficient and attractive, The fly in the ointment is that Australian Jgoods do cost a little more than others onthe Shanghai market. The Australian contention is that they are worth it and that they (the exporters) can prove they are. Tt may be so," But in China ch ness goes for a great. deal wishes the Australian Mi partment: every success would certainly. advise them to try to b&at their American competitors on price as well as on quality After all, why should not Austral fruits be landed here as cheaply Californian? There cannot be mud difference in distance and American Inbour costs are notoriously high.
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