APPLE AND PEAR PURCHASING

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23361, 21 June 1941, Page 5

APPLE AND PEAR PURCHASING

REPORTED PROPOSALS FOR NEXT' SEASON

(P.S.S.) DUNEDIN.' June 20, Proposals which, he said, the Internal Marketing Division considered introducing next season in the purchase of apples and pears were outlined by Mr S. G. Duncan, Otago member Of the. New .Zealand Fruit Board,; to a meeting of growers at Ettrick (Central Otago). Mr Duncan said. he desired an expression of opinion" so that he could outline Otago views at: a: meeting he would be attending in Wellington at, the end of, the-month, The first was that'to .assure sufficient quantities.' of: •fruit 1 being; pulled foi; cool store purposes'at the correct time for'cool-storing fruit, ft was suggested that a premium : should' be paid to encourage the receipt :s>t cool 1 : store fruit .•at-'prppefi fcreixl- 1 ■ium would -riot be-paid for-fruitfn addition, to fruit, pulled j-for; cool storage,but would: become payable :on a general, pool* an amount, to: be deducted from- the .overall amount,-to:' bey paid for the, value.of the fruit!, ■ • (The second proposal referred to a • review of ■ the present : Scale ofpremiums for orchard storage;, to remove anomalies. Mr Duncan: reminded the meeting that orchard storage" was really an ; Qtago-Ganterbury matter,, but had been used in Nelson this year because of conditions that v had arisen ‘preventing the quick (dispatch; of; fruit to Wellington markets; •'. ' i The third proposal; Mr Duncan, said,, was assembly marketing and purchase of fruit by size groups, All dUtsizes. large and small, would be paid, for oh a lower basis than the present allover payment on fruit received at the assembly sheds. The fdurth. and last proposal, Mr Duncan said, was the.. creation' of a fourth group in the price schedule to include the tow price varieties!;; The list of these varieties was a long one, and with the exception!- of a few'wellknown apples comprised sorts ■: that were not recognised as commercial, varieties. >’