Fruit-delivery distance to increase
PA Wellington The Apple and Pear Marketing Act will be changed to allow orchardists to deliver their produce over longer distances. A Parliamentary committee yesterday recommended to the Government for favourable consideration a petition by an orchardist, Mr B. Connolly, and 6150 others in the Auckland area, calling for the removal of restrictions on direct buying of apples and pears. The chairman of the committee (Mr L. C. Schultz), presenting the report, said the amendment to the act should be confined to increasing from 50 to 65km
the maximum delivery distance orchardists were allowed. He said later the committee could not agree to the petitioners’ request that the distance regulation be abolished. But it had agreed to an extension of the distance because apple and pear growing was expanding and it gave orchardists a better chance to deliver their own produce rather than have to rely on public transport. Mr Schultz said the new distance provision would require amending legislation in Parliament but he could not say when that would be brought forward.
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Press, 20 July 1979, Page 3
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