SALE OF "WINDFALLS"
growers condemn practice The practice of itinerant fruit hawkers going into orchards and picking up fruit which had fallen from the trees and selling it to the public was mentioned at the conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation in Wellington last week. Delegates said that such fruit was not fit for "human consumption, and that a system of inspection should be inaugurated with a view- to keeping it off the market. ' ~ , The conference passed a remit thatsome form of national registration and licensing by the Department of Agriculture of hawkers of fruit should be adopted and that inspection of fruit should go further that only that offered for sale at auction.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21297, 26 September 1932, Page 5
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115SALE OF "WINDFALLS" New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21297, 26 September 1932, Page 5
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