MARKETING OF BANANAS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 October 1938, Page 4

MARKETING OF BANANAS

ATTITUDE OF FRUIT BUYERS* EXECUTIVE COMPLAINT APPROVED I Unite! Pres# Association) CHRISTCHURCH. 25th October Approval of the complaint against the Government scheme for the marketing of bananas contained in the statement supplied to the “Press" by the secretary, Mr C. H. Capes, wag expressed at a special meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Fruit Buyers’ Association this evening. The statement published this morning wag issued under the name of Mr W. J. Masson, a member of the executive, who subsequently repudiated it. Of the nine members of the executive, exclusive of Mr Masson, seven were present at the meeting this evening, and they were unanimous in their decision to sign the statement set out below. The two absent members concurred in this decision by telephone. The statement, which set out the (executive’s general aproval of the : complaint made in the statement supi plied by Mr Capes to the “Press” and wftich details the procedure of the association, in the publication of such statements, reads as follows: “The attention of the executive of the Canterbury Fruit Buyers’ Association has been drawn to the fact that I Mr W. J. Masson, a member of the | executive, has repudiated a statement ! which appeared in the ‘Press’ to-day over his name on behalf of the Canterbury Fruit Buyers’ Association. We the undersigned members of the association, agree substantially with the statement, which was prepared by the secretary of the association on the authority of the executive. Such statements are from time to time prepared by the secretary and issued under the names of responsible members of the association, the executive having decided on this procedure for communications of official statements to newspapers. Before presenting the statement in the ‘Press,’ the secretary of the association endeavoured to communicate with Mr Masson, but ‘failed to get in touch with him.”

This is signed by Messrs F. O. Bentley (president), C. H. Capes (secretary), A. A. Holland, E. Guthrey. J. Adams, J. Daniel and J. A. Wilkinson (members of the executive).