SHORTAGE OF FRUIT PACKERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22306, 21 January 1938, Page 10

SHORTAGE OF FRUIT PACKERS

♦ CLASSES T.O BE FORME) IN CANTERBURY. Fruit packing classes will be * ranged by the Canterbury Fro* growers' Association this seas* Members of the association dea* last evening that as there had b«* a shortage of fruit packers in N<* ! son and in other parts of the I*s»f ion, an attempt should be the association to co-operaie w? youth employment organisations i Christchurch to form teach young persons the trade « classes will begin in the shed of Mr F. W. Sisson, vice-pr© dent of the association, on Febnw 21. Mr B. G. Goodwin, orchard* spector of the Department of A*P culture, will be the instructor, » each pupil will be charged 2s W" cover the expenses of the lnsm* tion. J "I have noticed advertisements® fering positions for packers m n* son," said Mr Goodwin, "and iftß* arc? positions in Nelson it ffljg there are not many young V&& taking on the work." Mr Sisson said he thought .tg would be an even greater S" • of packers in Canterbury. »*£ ~ of the men who had taken on » work in former years haa W? work on public works schemes, said. It was absolutely necesSK for the industry to have P«** and it could provide work * or Jl employed youths, he said. ~Pj members referred to the of packers in Nelson, and one nw* ber said that 17 men had gone m Otago to jobs in Nelson last*** Mr Goodwin also said that N«s» growers had asked him a o° u * possibility of getting packers »* Canterbury and other districts the packers in Canterbury wew Nelson the shortage would serious, he said. The cided that at first the classes wog be held on three nights a*7j and many of those present aK«»» attend the classes to stimulate » terest in them. ■ t