CASES FOR N.Z. FRUIT.
(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day.
The Industries and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives recently conducted an inquiry into the difficulties which affect the marketm fruit in New Zealand-made cases, and it was directed to inquire into the reasons for the preference now accorded to cases made from imported timber and-to report on " the best means of ensuring the use of local timber in future. . The committee's report, received by the House, states' that it considered 1 desirable that steps should be taken durin" the recess to ensure that fruit cases should be wholly manufactured m the Dominion, and that the Minister of Industries and Commerce be requested convene a conference of fruitgrowers, sawmillers and other interested parties, to formulate a scheme for consideration by Parliament next session.
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Auckland Star, Issue 265, 8 November 1929, Page 9
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