( Tasmanian Mail) If the scare in New Zealand against the introduction of codlin moth from this colony is a genuine one, it has its serious aspect, because, in the present state of the Australian market, with hostile tariffs interfering with our ex port of apples in all directions, it is not desirable that any convenient outlet should be closed. The prob ability, however, is, that the outcry is the result rather of trade jealousy than of a real desire to prevent the spread of the great apple pest in the orchards of the sister colony. New Zealand growers have been on the warpath for some time, and have made per sistent attempts to get sole control of the local market for their fruit. The result of this is to be seen in the first instance in the imposition b j the Government of an import duty of -|-d a pound, amounting, in the case of apples, to about Is 10d or 2s per case, and now it seems they desire to go a step further. The effect of the provision embodied in the Bill now before the New Zealand Parliament would be practically prohibition so far as the import of apples from this colony is concerned, and for that matter also from all the colonies of the mainland, where the codlin moth is much more prevalent than it is in Tasmanian orchards. It is in no bitter spirit that it is suggested that this is really the object of the legislation now being discussed in the sister colony. The amount of fruit produced there is already very large. Fresh orchards are being from time to time started there as population in creases, so that the number of bushels of fruit produced must also be greater as years pass by. Furl her than that, there i 3 little doubt that great injury has been done to orchardists in New Zealand, as it has also been to orchardists in Tasmania, and elsewhere, by the introduction of this and other fruit pests in the first instance from various outside quarters. 