FRUIT FOR EXPORT
COMPLAINTS OF FUNGUS CARELESSNESS IN PACKING [bt telegraph—own correspondent] CHRISTCHURCH. Monday "If we are going to maintain our good name on the English market, we must do all we can at this end," said Mr. B. G. Goodwin, chief orchard instructor in Christchurch, when speaking at a meeting of the Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association. Mr. Goodwin said that there had been numerous complaints about fungus being found in fruit packed for export. Most of the trouble, he thought, started in the packing sheds. Some of the growers packing fruit were careless. They allowed bad fruit to lie about in their sheds, and fungus got into the fruit which was being packed. Cleanliness in the packing sheds was essential if the waste in fruit for export was to be stopped, he said. Mr. Goodwin said also that more attention to the packing of fruit would check the trouble overseas. A box of fruit packed tightly would arrive in England in a better condition than one packed loosely.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22917, 21 December 1937, Page 18
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