CO-OPERATION AMONG FRUITGROWERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11950, 26 April 1902, Page 7

CO-OPERATION AMONG FRUITGROWERS.

THE PROPOSED CANNING FACTORY. The proposal to start a co-operative fruitpreserving factory in the. Auckland province waff advanced a stago yesterday at a meeting of fruitgrowers held in Mr. J. H. ***£**? office, under the auspices of the Auckland Fruitgrowers' Association. Mr. La*' PK»Klea, and there were about 40 fruitgrowers WJ"' The name of • the. company was adopt*" as the Auckland Orchardists' Co-operative * run Preserving and Packing Company, LimitsCapital, £10,000, in £1 shares, only bonaflde fruitgrowers to be shareholders, bonafide fruitgrowers to bo owners or occupiers of not less than half-an-aero of orchard, except in the cases of strawberries and vineries, and, subject to this definition, authority to be given to the directors to determine individually upon application who are bona-tide fruitgrowers. The objects of the company were adopted as (1) fruit-preserving and packing and'its marketing; (2) establishment ot a jam factory, (3) establishment of a fresh fruit depot in the city of Auckland or elsewhere; (4) establishment of a drier/, or drieries, or evaporators; (5) establishment ©1 a winery or depot for other liquors obtainable from fruit; (6) establishment of a system of communication with the various markets in New Zealand and elsewhere to ensure the sol© of fruit at remunerative prices; (7) establishment of a bureau of information lor fruitgrowers in Auckland; (8) to supervise the transportation of fruit by rail and steamer, so as to check damage to fruit belonging to shareholders, or to the company, There war, considerable discussion with reference to a clause in the draft prospectus, that shareholders should pledge themselves to give to the cannery one-fourth of their fruit suitable for canning, but eventually this was struck out and it was agreed that shareholders must pledge themselves to supply not loss than one-sixth of such varieties of their season's crop as ma) be suitable and required by the company. A committee of seven was elected to draft articles of association, etc., consisting of Messrs. Jack. J. Parr, Cochrane, Rollett, Thompson, Parrishand S. A. Browne. The fruitgrowers present undertook to canvass their 'respective districts for shareholders, and report not later than May 21. Mr. J. H. Mackio was appointed secretary pro. tern, of the proposed company, and Mr. J. V\. Stewart, solicitor to advise the committee.