FRUIT EXPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 14

FRUIT EXPORT.

CONTROL BOARD SILENT. POSSIBLE REDUCTION OF LEVY. (By TelegTaph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The new proposals of the Fruit Export Control Board for the control of next season's crop are not likely to be revealed in the immediate future. Mr. H. Napier, secretary to the board, stated to-day that though there was some measure of discussion at the Auckland conference, which has just concluded, and though there will be more at the conference of fruitgrowers, which will meet at Wellington at the end of the month, nothing of moment will be made public. The board, indeed. can hardly act until the return of Col. C. Gray, who has been sent to England by the Government to study marketing conditions generally, and he will not be back in the Dominion until August or September. It is more than probable that the levy on export will be reduced next year, says Mr. Napier. The amount arranged for this season was 2d per case, and there is sure to be a surplus. Consequently the surplus can be offset against nevt year's operations. No further great increase in the Dominion totals of fruit exported is anticipated. There may be an increase in various districts, and Auckland growers confidently expect their figures to rise a great deal, but the past season has shown a leap upward of 200 per cent in the number of cases exported, and that can scarcely occur again.