AUSTRALIAN FRUITGROWERS.
BOUNTY ON PEACHES. (Received 16, 12.30 p.m.) Melbourne, Nov. IG. The fruitgrowers’ again waited on Dr Earle Page, and announced that tho representative of proprietary«canners had refused to accept the offer of the Commonwealth Government unless the amont was raised to £150,000, which is £60,000 more than was offered. Dr. Page flatly refused tho request and expressed surprise that the proprietary canners shopld bring about a deadlock while the much-criticised co-opera-tive concerns were doing their best to encourage the industry by extending oversea markets. The Government al ready had gone further than it intended and would go no further. —(A. and N.Z.)
Dr. Earle Page and Mr Chapman offered a deputation of Australian fruitgrowers and canners a" bounty of a shilling per dozen thirty ounce tins of clingstone peaches, -and tenpence for freestone, being an approximate in crease of £12,060. Dr. Page subsequently stated that the co-operative* canning factories, the Leeton statu factory, and the growers were prepared to accept the offer but the proprietary canners were holding out for more.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 284, 16 November 1923, Page 5
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173AUSTRALIAN FRUITGROWERS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 284, 16 November 1923, Page 5
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