Marketing of Fruit and Vegetables
ANALYSIS OF INDUSTRY
WHOLESALE TRADE CRITICISED
RADICAL RECOMMENDATIONS MADE
The Committee which was set up by the-Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. SuJßvan) to investigate and report on the marketing of fruit and vegetables in New Zealand, exclusive of sales for export, spent nearly three months gathering evidence. During that time it examined 260 witnesses, comprising growers, orchard instructors, wholesale fruit merchants and brokers, retailers, iam and preserved fruit manufacturers, transport officials, representatives of labour organisations,, Government officers, and persons representing organisations interested in some phase or other of the industry. The Committee inspected typical orchards, gardens, and packing sheds, as well as certain jaca and preserved fruit factories, and made an examination of the conditions and methods of orchard management, grading and packing1- citrus curing, market gardening, transport and marketing, and wh.qSesale and retail distribution. Inspections were made of all auctiion mails in the four main centres.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 14
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156Marketing of Fruit and Vegetables Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 14
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