FRUIT MARKETING
INQUIRY IN AUCKLAND EVIDENCE OF RETAILERS After carrying out a comprehensive inspection of the wholesale fruit marts of Auckland yesterday morning, the Fruit Marketing Inquiry Committee was engaged for the remainder of the day in hearing the evidence of witnesses for the retail trade in respect of the marketing and handling of New Zea-land-grown and imported fruit and vegetables. Further evidence of this nature will be taken to-day, and the committee will leave for Kerikeri to-morrow, returning to Auckland next Monday, when the inquiry will resume until the following Thursday. The committee was set up by the Minister of Industries and Commerce to conduct a private inquiry into the marketing and transport of fruit, and its members arc Mr. A. Coleman, of Stratford (chairman), Mr. J. A. Campbell director of the horticultural division of the Department of Agriculture, and Mr. J. 15. Thomas, of the Department of Industries and Commerce. Through the local office of this department or the chairman himself, arrangements to give evidence may bo made by any person desiring to do so.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22518, 8 September 1936, Page 11
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