FRUIT MARKETING SCHEME

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22940, 9 February 1940, Page 8

FRUIT MARKETING SCHEME

Growers’ Objections

At Loburn

INCREASED RATE SOUGHT

FOR orchard storage

A motion to notify the Internal Marketing Department that JUI WQijlfi he delivered to the storage point 9S the frwit was picked unless the orchard storage rate was increased was passed at a meeting of the _ Lobum Fruitgrowers' Association on Wednesday evening. . A long discussion on the yaripus points of the G Y§fPffisnt marketing of pip fruit was held before the resolution was passed, the meeting lasting from 8 p.m. until almost is a war on now, 1 ' said M r B - Turner, “and the Government tells US mat ail must make some sacrifices. That may be so, but it seems 3P the fruitgrower is the first to get’ the axe. Jf the grower is to do any good tinker this spheme, he must have a '%T!r*i'Mln r e B (p do I. to deliver the whole of the Lobupn fruff crop as it is picked,” said Mr R-. % gon, sppretary to the _l am suite prepared to store fruit my" self, as { have dung nut I am hot prepared to' store it a t the price p Mr J, W, Maciepd, proposed 'that it be recommended to the department', that an increase of 6d instead of 4d as at present he made fpr the first month pf storage. In answer to 3 question, Mr A- JKing, storage officer, said that if a grower were to refuse to stgre fruit at the request of the storage officer, then the latter would he entitled to refuse tq accept any more fruit from said that the Government should, be written to ns the Fruitgrowers' Federation would not sell the gtieker? for the opd ,P|. cases in retail lots- He said that in h|s own case he had trees of different varieties, and that jf he .bad to huy 100 stickers for each variety, then the supply of stickers would last |i|cus|lon on this point Icdtoa motion , that the growers refuse to use the stickers. pn the a t %U present resumed by the Marketing Pppliiment. 4 After much discussion, in Which the growers showed disapproval of the stickers, the motion was carried- Mr E. K, Banficld remarked that as no exporting was to he stickers' were obviously superfluous. Whether the scheme was yet legal was raised hy Mr Sampson, who asked what the position would be if he sent fruit info the market m the normal way without advising the Marketing Pehartment, • . , ' . “The regulations have not poen issued, we ■do ' not know when they will be issued, and the advice, or orders, received hy the growers, have no backing. So far as I ean see, there is nothing tq stop m§ from selling my fruit in the usual manner,"