PRICE FOR PIP FRUIT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25088, 21 January 1947, Page 5

PRICE FOR PIP FRUIT

NEED FOR INCREASED PAYMENT ADDRESS TO NELSON GROWERS ” The Press ” Special Service . NELSON, January 19. The opinion that New Zealand pip fruit growers were not receiving an adequate price for their product and that they should ask for an increase of 2s 6d a case was expressed by Mr J. H. Parker, assistant-general manager of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, speaking to Nelson growers. An increased payment would give orchardists a fair return above the present-day production costs and enable them to acquire modern orchard and packing shed equipment so that in the future they would be in a position to compete on world markets with other apple and pear producing countries. he said Mr Parker recently visited Britain, Canada, and the United States on behalf of the federation, and studied production costs and prices received by growers in those countries. Criticism of the Fruit Marketing Council’s decision to curtail this year’s export of 500.000 cases, the quantity requested by Britain, to 250,000 cases was made by growers present, and the meeting unanimously resolved to ask the fruit advisory committee to press for the export of 500.000 cases.