FRUIT INDUSTRY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 246, 15 September 1936, Page 2

FRUIT INDUSTRY.

APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT. Per Press Association. HASTINGS, Sept. 14. At a largely attended meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Fruit Growers’ Association to consider matters in connection with the suggested awards for orchard employees, the following resolution was carried unanimously: “That the fruit growers, being desirous of extending to their employees the benefits of the recent legislation with regard to wages and other conditions of labour, which at present they are unable to do because of the unsatisfactory financial position of the industry as a result of low prices both overseas and locally, the Government be requested to take immediate steps to ensure that the fruit growers are placed in the position of so doing.”

AUSTRALIANS’ VISIT

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 14

“The growers of New South Vales felt very keenly tTie loss of the market they had established with the Dominion so many years ago, and the pioneers of the industry, many of whom are still actively associated as producers, are hopeful that something may be. clone to reopen the trade,” said Brigadier-General J. Reane, the president of the Now South AVales Fruit Growers’ Federation, who, with Colonel E. E. Herrod, tlie federation’s secretary, and Air P. S. Mnedermott, a member of the Council of tlie New South Wales Chamber of Fruit and Vegetable Industries, arrived by the Manama to-day. They are to discuss fruit matters generally with the various sections of the industry in the Dominion.