FRUIT CONTROL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 June 1926, Page 6

FRUIT CONTROL

PROPOSALS FOR NEXT SEASON EARLY STATEMENT UNLIKELY (By Telegraph.—Special to The Mail.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The new proposals of the Fruit Export Control Board for the Control of next season’s crops are not likely to be revealed in the immediate future. Mr H. E. Napier, Secretary to the Board, stated to-day that though there was some measure of discussion at. the Auckland Conference which has just concluded, and there will be more at the conference of fruitgrowers which will meet at Wellington at the end of the month, nothing of moment will be made public. The Board indeed can hardly act until the return of Col. C. Gray,' who has been sent to England hv the 'Government to study marketing cnndjtions generally, and he will not. he hack in the Dominion until August or September . LEVY SURPLUS OFFSET AGAINST NEXT YEAR It is more than probable that the levy on export will he reduced next year, says Mr Napier. The amount arranged for this season was 2d per case, and there is sure to be a surplus. Consequently the amount can be offset against next year’s operations. No further great increase in the Dominion totals of fruit exported is anticipated. There may be increases in various districts. Auckland growers confidently expect their figures to rise a great deal, but. the past season has shown a leap upward of 200 per cent in the number of cases exported, arid that can scarcely occur again.