NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE TRADE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14100, 20 July 1911, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE TRADE.

OBJECTS OF PRODUCERS' ASSO-

CIATION,

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAU.) • WELLINGTON, July 19. The committee appointed at tho conference of Now Zealand producers to formulate the objects of the Producers' Association concluded its sitting today. Mr J. G. Wilson presided. The following were approved as the objects of the Association: —To impress• upon the port of London authority tho necessity for modernising and improving the methods of handling and storing New Zealand produce, and to provide better berthago accommodation, unloading facilities, and cold storage at the docks; to urge the Smithfield market authority to provide additional cold storage and to have improved facilities for.handling produce to and_ from the market; to securo the abolition of allowances in frozen meat and woolj to collect data and information in regard to the best system of marketing the produce of tlie Dominion in the United Kingdom or in any other country, whether grain, dairy produce, frozen meat, or other agricultural or pastoral products, and to disseminate such information among the producers; to tako steps to acquaint consumers of the high quality of New Zealand produce and to ensure that consumers can procure the genuine article; to generally watch over the interests of producers in such ways **a may from timo to -time be deemed necessary. The Association shall not directly undertake- tho handling or marketing of produce in any way. The meeting considered the Bill now before tho British House of Commons for amendment of the Mercantile 3tlarks_ Act, so as to provide that all meat imported into the United Kingdom shall bo sold as foreign meat, it was decided to communicate with Mr Shelton, representative of the Association in London, and ask him to ascertain if there is any prospect of the Bill becoming law during the present session, and if so, to endeavour to have provision inserted for making a distinction between New Zealand produce and that imported from other countries.