FRUITGROWERS' CONFERENCE

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 6

FRUITGROWERS' CONFERENCE

LOCAL REMITS CONSIDERED. At the meeting of the Auckland Conference of the Fruitgrowers' Federation yesterday afternoon, Mr. H. V. Izard presided. The conference agreed to a remit that the Government be urged to offer a substantial bonus to anybody finding a practical remedy for such pests and diseases as fire blight, black spot, etc. Henderson urged standard cases for stone fruit (local option being granted), and that tho 6 x 6 x 28 and the No. 5 (Hat case) be the standard for Auck-. land. It was stated that the 7 x 8 case was not suitable for stone fruit, and j would not be used if the Government | stood to its regulations as to standard cases. Mr. Paltridge expressed the opinion that the cases specified would be unanimously acceptable here. The remit was unanimously approved. The question of a uniform charge for fruit cases being brought up at the conference was left to the delegates. A discussion on a remit from Huapai, urging the issye of a full report of the conference, elicited the information from Mr. Greer that every fruitgrower could I obtain the report from the publishers | on payment of a small fee. Personally, he felt that it would be worth the conference's while to have free copies of the j conference report made available to all fruitgrowers from the point of view of organisation. As taxpayers the fruitgrowers were entitled to the information, and a remit was carried that reports be supplied to all affiliated societies, and further copies be made available to all taxpaj-crs on payment of a small fee. A further remit, that- the federation report at an early date what remits were definitely > rejected, was approved. The urging of a more modern method of handling fruit on the railway, particularly in reference to peaches and pears, was a remit from Te Kauwhata, j which was enthusiastically approved, a! number of the delegates stating experi- I ences of fruit which had been mishandled i at railway.junctions. Mr. Green inti-1 mated that from what he had heard of recent changes in the Department, the! federation this year had a better chance ! than ever before of getting the matter remedied. [ A remit that the representation at the j conference be on an acreage basis was approved without discussion. That all I spraying materials be sold under Govern-1 ment guarantee; that no duty be charged on fruit trees imported for the purpose of obtaining new varieties; and' that protection be afforded to the raiser of new varieties of fruit, were also ap- • proved without discussion. A remit from Waikumete, that tho conference require ! from the Horticultural Division a com-1 plete report re offenders, was unani- I mously approved. A remit from Huapai, ' that the next conference be held in, Otago, was lost. I