GRADING OF FRUIT
LOCAL CONSUMPTION
REGULATIONS ISSUED
'Regulations gazetted last evening prescribe compulsory grading stanset out so that all reasonably marketable fruit. Will fall into one or other °fThe f-egulations also provide for an inspection fee of one penny on the standard bushel case type of package of fruit and a fee of a halfpenny for a half-case or other- type 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 un-lcr-s they conform to one 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, __y
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1938, Page 4
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181GRADING OF FRUIT Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1938, Page 4
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