FRUIT MARKETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 197, 22 July 1931, Page 10

FRUIT MARKETS.

OPPOSITION TO “BUYING-IN.” Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 21. Opposition was expressed at the conference of tomato, soft fruit and produce growers to-day to the legalising of “buying-in” as proposed by the New Zealand Fruit and Produce Auctioneers’ and Importers’ Federation. Mr T. R. Foster moved that such legislation be strenuously opposed by the association. He referred to the recent decision given in the Supreme Court on the subject. “Buying in” was a bad thing for the growers. He instanced a case where a grower had taken a consignment of potatoes to Wellington, taking some to one auction room and some to another. At the second room the day’s market price of 14s was paid, but when he went back to the other the potatoes had been withdrawn and he was only paid Bs. The president, Mr C. E. Pope, said that some growers refused to put their produce in the market by the side of imported fruits and had taken it to another auctioneer. Mr Foster contended that'if country

buyers were represented in the market prices would be much higher than they were.

The president said that the Canterbury Association had given instructions to oppose such legislation. The subject was referred to the various associations for consideration.