LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13775, 19 October 1942, Page 2

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

LEMON i\ ni ... Sir „T lu a re <*nt i SSUe , an address given i ,)x "»r?v *•-•-. £ guarantee to *, "'"PH-v, 10 growers i changed from ?/. „ op ' ,s to to 4 *Znl H^said t 0 ■*<>* that u le !"'" equal value. u ° ■■ -" 1939 > explaining the following to say re,!. aild Packed measure '•T " : have been resigned J B Z ~ wilh o( !' so as to contain, wh e „ lemons to yield in terms of*! the equivalent of t bushel I, sized, and packed l eni o„ s vi f ! lowance for wastage of n by way of skin shrinkage arf ' : losses '; It adds, that the Pose of paying by the l oose Z ls t 0 enable Prompt payment r made, and avoid the delay i ' curing. '' t,u ' '

With this stipulated loss \ c is the equivalent of 5/51(1 per w' bushel. The experience of the Tatm Citrus Association for 193$ Bt , ' lowing for stock increase,"^' overall loss, including reject* /* per cent and with this loss 1 1 loose is the equivalent of ;,•. packed. Government Bulletin No, 53 il( 37) page 140, puts the totally at from 20 per cent, to 25 per « R consequently 4/Gd loose would betb equivalent of 5/71d to G/- parteFor actual prompt payment, •;•. department insists on using an aft trary figure of 33.3 per cent, bag on nothing but a desire to retain marginfi, and using this figure, |/| loose would be equal to 6/9d parte A guarantee of 7/- packed k the stipulated loss of 17} per c;: gives an equivalent loose bush-: price of 5/9.3d against the lite ter's proposed 4/6d. Last year, to avoid importaii;: during a period when producti:: falls below requirements, the department decided as a marketing spallation to store large quantities c lemons, purchased under the "gradated" scale at glut prices, to ink as required, in later months, it! knowing such procedure to in* excessive shrinkage and waste,

Under the agreement it is clea: improper to pass these excfei speculative losses on accepted In back to the grower, as the fall "over-run" to lid indicates waste

With the guarantee'put on i straight out loose bushel basis tben can of course, be no such lose charged back,—and incidentally J Dominion Pool, the newly announce! reserve fund could function in Itobut, if the figure at which the p rantee is given discounts these k ses in advance, as the available dm indicates, growers will he perm* ently made responsible for to® arise after acceptance. When it is remembered that ib guarantee applies in Tauranga ; less than two thirds of the cror'-; remaining third being paid "» fixed prices yielding appro*3/8d per loose bushel, an«** the real value of the change ca» made. I am, etc.,