FRUIT EXPORT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 21 July 1937, Page 2

FRUIT EXPORT.

HAWKE’S BAY’S HOPES. Per Press Association. HASTINGS, July 10. The probability of a million cases of fruit being available for . export during the coming season from the Hawke’s Bay and Nelson districts along was forecast by Mr H. F. Stenben,s (chairman of the New' Zealand Fruit Control Board) in aii address to delegates attending the Hawke’s Bay provincial conference at Hastings to-day. Although big developments were anticipated in regard to the local market, Mr Stephens was stronglv of opinion that export would remain the growers’ main market.

During the course of the conference it was pointed dot by Mr S. Salter in, reference to tho Government guarantee, that the bruit Board’s balance-sheet showed that while practically £600,000 was spent by the fruitgrowers, _ all they got hack was roughly £270,000. “Another w'ny to put it.’’ said Mr W. Benzies, “would he that out of lOh 6d —the amount guaranteed—a net 2s 3d goes to pay for production.” , . “The Government has given us 10s 6d,” said Mr A.’M. Bobertson. “Charges for packing and material mn into 8s and costs of growing and picking the fruit and putting it into the shed add another 3s, making a total of ID- That last 3s includes wages for the grow'er and interest on his land. I would like the public to understand that the grower is not getting 10s Od. He is the medium through which tho workers get it.”