FRUIT CASE SUPPLIES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 2

FRUIT CASE SUPPLIES

(To the Editor., Sir, —I rend in your paper a day or two ago a statement made, by Mr Dennis Neal, local representative of Die Fruitgrowers’ Federation, advising local growers that the cost of the imported Canadian fruit case for the coming season will be 9d or lOd per case as compared with the local case 1/2. Sir, when one wishes to boost- an article it is always wise to remember fact-a I actually read the local list- of case prices yesterday and 1 find that- instead of being 1/2 as stated they are 12jd, and this 1 understand is further reducable by purchasing a quantity, say 10.000. Even this may seem to the unwary, an excessive price .but a glance at the attendant facts will help to remove, at- least- some of that impression, the Canadian ease comes into this country practically duty free, as the duty as remitted on re-ex-portation. As the Canadian case is supplied cash on delivery there is no outlying cash and bad debts to be provided for by the Canadian Company, also by ordering ou a, large scale a- saw miller can adopt measures to cope with thatdemand and thereby reduce the cost of production. Hitherto there lias been practically no organised demand for fruit, cases, locally, consequently there has been no organised supply and there has been no organised method of paying and there has been a lot of cases not paid for at all. This puts tio the costof ihe local production. As for the statements made in the- press that, the Canadian cases are better made than the local ones, I presume that the statements are made by some interested person or persons, and as it is usual, when boosting anything, to compare- the best with the worst, so as to create a. decisive impression, the comparison is not worth the proverbial “salt." The local firms can make a case as good as the Canadian and in any quantity if required to do so. Now that the federation lias organised they have decided to deal with foreigners and send their good money nut of tile country and allow their local industries to languish. Sounds like patriotism. On top of these facts they arc making use of the Government guar, a nice to assist them to do so. 1 believe Sir. that if the Federation had given the opportunity to the local people, they could and would have treated them as well as a lot of Swedes on the other side of tin globe will do, and the country would be so much wealthier. —I am etc.. INTERESTED.