FRUIT PRICES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24027, 16 August 1943, Page 4

FRUIT PRICES

MEMBER’S STATEMENT QUESTIONED . r “The recent statement in the Holla by Mr J. Thorn, M.P. for Thames, ,(h ji apple growers how receive 80 per certH more than they did in the 1939 sea'sra] when he said they received 3s Sd.ta quite wrong,” said Mr H. R. Canterbury’s director of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, in * statement to a representative of “Thl Press.” ' *■ The 3s 3d quoted by Mr Thorn, said Mr Sampson, was the price received on the local market for some of the apples. He completely disregarded more than 1,000,000 cases exported and also those marketed by growers wfco, did not claim on the subsidy: then offered. The price also included mud) edible but low-grade fruit not now permitted on the market, and all fruit was packed in a much cheaper, pack. According to the schedule prepared by Government officers and incorporated in an order of the Court ofßa* view under the Rehabilitation': Act, growers received a better price in On nine years before 1936 than they did to* day. Mr Thorn displayed a very ifral* low knowledge of fruit affairs, CWr eluded Mr Sampson.