FRUITGROWERS' ASSOCIATION.
The monthly meeting of the CanUrtrury Fruitgrowers' Aaocittion Vm held on SfetQP day night, Mr P. W- Cone presiding attt • lorge attendance. Th» MinUter of Agriculture wrote raplyin* io a letter from the Association in regno to the imposition of a duty'on fruit tree*, ana the remoy»l of the embargo on the importation info New Zetland of fruit tree# from Australia. He stated that the commumc*tion did not reach him until after the ne* tariff had been placed before Parliament. He proposed making irtVeatigalione regardingtha jncreaSß iri the prices of tree* by nnraeryiren, but atated that the preaent time WM not opportune for the removal of the emfcartfo. t It nw decided that, while approving of * college of horticulture, the meeting wa» of the opinion that the present time.wii not opportune for euch a scheme to bo carried In connexion with the charging for caw* propotal, it woe resolved that a paid Organiser ehould ba appointed to further the ob ject.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17320, 5 December 1921, Page 11
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