GRADING STANDARDS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 153, 25 March 1938, Page 10

GRADING STANDARDS

Fruit For Local Market INSPECTION OF PACKAGES Compulsory grading standards for apples, pears and lemons grown in the. Dominion for local consumption are prescribed in regulations published in the Gazette issued last evening. These regulations, which come into force on Monday, also provide for an inspection fee on graded fruit. The grading standards are set out so that all reasonably marketable fruit will fall into one of other of the grades., , There will be an inspection fee payable of one penny on the standard bushel case type of package, and a fee of a half-penny for a half-case or other types of package. This fee, which is to reimburse the additional inspection costs, will be recovered by means of an adhesive stamp of an approved design to be affixed by the owner of the fruit to every package containing fruit. intended for sale.

The stamp must be attached to the package before its removal from the place where it is packed to the place at which it is to be offered for sale. No person is to offer for sale any apples, pears, or lemons in any package unless they conform to oue or other of the standard grades, or unless the conditions relating to grading, wrapping, and packing and the stamping and marking of packages have been complied with.