FRUITGROWERS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 8 June 1931, Page 8

FRUITGROWERS.

/MEETING OF CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION.

The Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association mot on Saturday night, Mr E. {Freeman presiding over a good attendances Selling Apples in tlie Streets. The Christehurch District Retail •Fruiterers' Association wrote that it bad been noted that the Association (proposed to approach tho Christehurch fCity Council for permission for the unemployed to sell apples in the- streets... 'The retailers at.their.last meeting had decided to protest to the Fruitgrowers' Association and to the City Couricil •against tho proposal."Fruiterers were having a very lean time, and low prices had not made much difference. The proipoeaV if given effect to, would bring | great hardship to fruiterers who wore isuffering from reduced turnover. The ifruiterers were making every endeavfctur to sell the fruit and were not lookjing for fancy prices. It was trusted 'that the matter would be reconsidered. The chairman explained that he had ; taken no action in connexion with the. (resolution arrived at by the previous [month's meeting because he thought it 'bad been arrived at in a hurry and without very much thought. He had idiscussed the matter with some of the 'members and the general feeling out--1 tide seemed to be that they would not' gala much by giving effect to the resolution. It would have been necessity, to have barrows to sell from, and it had been the Association's policy t« oppose barrows. Again, if apples were in the streets they would not be Id in the shops; they could not have Kt both ways.

Market Glutted. The trouble this year had been that t&ir too much fruit had been put on the ' market. At Loburn 500 acres, and on ; the outskirts of the. City. 200 acres—7Cib | acres in all—had come into bearing in recent years, and it stood to reason that iChristehurch could not absorb all the i fruit from that <area. There was only •one tray to maintain prices, and that 'was to export the surplus. This season {30,000 eases, were sent away, but he I thought that fully 70,000 should have 'beea sent. It was really their own ! fault that prices had been so low. A j representative of the Control Board had ! visited Christehurch and two Dep rtl mental officers had been impressing on jihen the necessity for exporting, and (if they were carrying too many apples it was their own fault. It was no use woxxying retailers to maintain prices when they, 89 fruitgrowers, wore .over.supplying the market. In future ,thoy would have to ascertain, dnring the growing season, what the total output would be and the amount the local market would ! absorb, and they would have to export the surplus. They could not. . igo on doing aa they hSad, been doing with. W it could not' absorb (ha erot>. It'wa» moved and seconded: That the «etolution he held "over-for six months. Mr G. IL Bills%n said that fruiterers iwere not' the' onTy persons affected. IRraitgrowers find an. rootlet through export, and eyeiy fruitgrower |should do'nbi T>e«t J 3jt 4hat respect. No <d<mbt if fte. rewJalSaa had received Nsore consideration it would not haver r«: fruiterers «ettintf out. that the fruijt(growera apprises, tlieir , difficulties," tand asking to-exert their utmptft ;«ndeavou3« jfo the 'pubEe- I^ within- -reasonable iand, as far as possible, insist on selling [Canterbury fruit. By doing so the.proleeeds were spent locally. The motion was agreed to, and it was Hieeided ttT reply ~6"n ihe lines suggested tbjr MrHßillson. jQdwttistog Campaign. " 1 .-Mr P. W. Cone : moved that ithe . AsttHMiatin. h*v« cards printed r with;. tho them, .IfM-tupply them to retailers. * ' /''' P.. W. Bisaon seconded, and sugirilrni] that space should on the iw the retailer ta add the prieo. ' ;•, 1 > r .JISHw chairman aaked* what , the limit expenditure should be. '.f|Mr'>Bisgtm. said thai wtOd „be p#' use gains .011 unless something, at«|iieti*e 'tU thing. If they had £3 • ™|f£l,OL'''to' • spend,; now was,' the time v 'p||flr' B. :: G. Orchard InstrUton. fertilisers in 'to" oreltsrdt. Beferring to the Papanui^. orthit at' tho eiH^sn^svro^' v Out-this scasou. - Oir June 30th, Mr Goodwin, wcihl igjftik *rxdi. I "*iai)Hß«m reported on a conferd -with the fruit auctioneers us matters. The, matter they, rowers,' Were 'most interested in SI- of shipifients frait from - Nelsoi; during the mfWter Ito deal with: Thay avtf -eider . works, or drying he. sujpply of reject from ad paralysed ths Chriatnarket,; The fruit auctlpneers that ,it waa in thoir interjlf ns the "fruitgrowers, to dir. opprtajions of " reject fruit wau. One 'result 'of the. glut that fruitgrowers had Tjaen ■ect to shopkocpers, ifith the fc* the. fruitgrowers had been pne against the "other." He thfet the best place for them s«r 'fruit was through the hpr% they got better compctiifltterprie'es/ Winds! - Conference, rf-anaouacod that the Fruitprovincial Conference , would in Christehurch 00 August 6th '-Conference in,' Wei'psp|gtTO September -Sfud, 'At' the -same conference - woidd be