With that object in view a committee has been set up to prepare the necessary articles and memorandum of association for the formation of a public company, with headquarters in Dunedin.
It is anticipated that the company will be strongly supported by all the fruit-growers in the province, as there has been a feeling amongst them for some time past that such a movement should be started.
The company, it is understood, will not confine its attention solely to the marketing of fruit, but will also purchase all requisites necessary for the working of orchards.
It is stated that the company will work largely along the lines adopted by the Waitemata (Auckland) Fruitgrowers' Association.
This association has proved a very great success. It started operations in 1905 with a capital of 200, the members being strawberry growers only.
It has now increased its capital to 2000, and has 380 members, and last year dealt with no less than 270,000 cases of fruit of all descriptions.
During this short period the northern company has been forced by its growing business to make five different moves to larger premises.
From a small store in 1905 it is now in occupation of a large two-storey warehouse.
• Evidence of the wish of many city people for a country life was furnished to a gentleman in business in Dunedin this week.
Desirous of securing the services of a young man to attend to his horses on his fruit farm in Central Otago he advertised the position in the Daily Times, adding that a suitable applicant would have an opportunity of learning fruit culture.
On the following day 30 applications were received, and 24 of the applicants were young men engaged in office-work in the city.
This is certainly an indication of a strong desire on the part of city workers to ''get back to the land''.
• The Otago trawling industry is about to receive a decided fillip.
Three new trawlers have just been fitted up, and should be working the waters round the coast within the next few days, making six trawlers in all engaged in the local industry.
The largest of the three new craft to be put into commission is the Peninsula Ferry Company's Moerangi, which has recently been refitted.
This steamer was originally designed for fishing purposes and deep sea work, and she has now been equipped with all the latest appliances in the way of trawlers and fishing gear.
She will be in charge of Captain Hanning and two other seamen who are experienced trawlers and who are thoroughly well acquainted with the coast.
The other two boats which are to take up the business of catching the inhabitants of the vasty deep are the Galileo and the Muriel.
The Galileo was built by Mr Jenkinson and the Muriel by Mr Leech, both Dunedin shipwrights.
These two boats are between 40ft and 50ft in length, are substantially constructed, and reflect great credit on their builders.
Fish should be very plentiful on the Dunedin market within the next few weeks.
• The prophylactic virtues of golf were lauded by Dr R. M. Gunn, one of the speakers of a deputation which interviewed the Hon. H. D. Bell on Tuesday in the interests of the Taratahi-Carterton Racing Club.
Dr Gunn stated that calls at his surgery since golf started at Carterton had (particularly in the case of lady patients) sadly diminished, which showed that golf had a very beneficial effect on the health of the people. - ODT, 18.6.1914.
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