Australian Canned Fruit for the Homeland

This leaflet entitled 'Australian Canned Fruit for the Homeland', promotes the virtues of canned fruit such as peaches, pears and apricots from Australia. Australia became an independent dominion of the British Empire in 1901. The text points out the convenience and healthiness of tinned fruit and asserts the close cultural relationship between Britain - 'The Homeland' - and Australia. The leaflet is imperialistic in tone, stressing the advantages of 'Empire Trade'. It reads 'Australian business is a British family affair, because the Australians are British people, having the same ideals and investments in common and holding dear and ready to fight for all that is precious to the British race...Australian fruit comes largely from men who fought for the Empire's cause in the Great War'.