FRUIT AND CREAM.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1928, Page 8

FRUIT AND CREAM.

DEPUTATION TO MIWTSTEW,

IMPORTED APPLES AND DAIRY

STANDARDS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

HASTINGS, this dav.

On arrival from Smedlev Estate, Mr. O. -T. Hawken. Minister of Agriculture was deput-ationised by fruitgrowers, who, after requesting improvements relating to railway transport of fruit complained that the importation of Canadian and American apples during October and November was detrimental to the marketing of late cool-stored local fruit.

The Minister promised to inform the Minister of Customs of the position. He also promised that the Department's investigations regarding ilesh collapse in apples during cool storage would continue until finality was reached. Reph ing to a dairy faetorv deputation who contended that the regulation of three grades of cream caused friction among dairy farmers and asked that "finest' should be merged into "first," the Minister said that the result of the present regulations was that quality through the Dominion had improved The only way to educate the farmer was by strictness of grading, and th-> Department did not want the improved standard to slip back. This matter would be thrashed out at the annual dairy conference, which would express its opinion of the industry as a whole.