increase in the facilities for utilising the fruit. This requires labour, and there is right here an opening for many industrious workers, a business that I have no doubt will pay from the start, a business of which we have the Australian monopoly, and in which there is no reason that I can see in which we should not compete satisfactorily in the markets of the world. [Illustration: Pineapple Plantation--Showing method of growing the fruit, Woombye District.] Queensland possesses many advantages respecting the growth of this fruit as compared with other countries in which it is grown commercially, which may be briefly enumerated as follows:-- 1st.--Freedom from loss by freeze-outs; 2nd.--The ease with which the fruit can be grown, and its freedom from disease; 3rd.--The large area of land suitable to its culture, and the low price at which suitable land can be obtained; 4th.--The fine quality of the fruit; 5th.--The superiority of our fruit for canning purposes; 6th.--The low price at which it can be produced, and the heavy crops that can be grown. These are enough reasons to show that in the pineapple we have a fruit well suited to our soil and climate, a fruit in the cultivation of which there is room for great extension, and which will provide a living for many industrious settlers. [Illustration: Rough-leaved Pines, Redland Bay District.] [Illustration: Pineapple Plantation--On virgin soil, showing scrub land at back being cleared for fruit growing, Woombye District.] THE MANGO.