ISLAND FRUIT
Request For Better System Of Marketing DEPUTATION COMING FROM RAROTONGA The next steamer from the Cook Islands will bring to Wellington a small deputation of Rarotongan fruitgrowers to give evidence to a Parliamentary committee on the need for changes in the system of disposing of island fruit on the New Zealand market. Most of the members of the deputation will be native growers, and it is expected that they will be in Wellington during the present week. Earlier in the session more than 1000 Rarotongan growers, representing two different groups, petitioned Parliament for an inquiry to ascertain the best methods of applying a guaranteed minimum price to the fruit shipped from the islands. While the petitioners agreed on the need for a better marketing system they differed about the best method of effecting an improvement, fine petition asked for the formation of a producers’ board along the lines of similar boards existing in the Dominion. The other was opposed to that suggestion and advocated a greater use being made of the Resident Commissioner’s Fruit Advisory Committee. These petitioners claimed that a control board would involve expense and a consequent increase ou. overhead charges. The deputation coming from the islands will represent both groups of petitioners.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 8
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207ISLAND FRUIT Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 8
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