LEMONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24275, 16 May 1942, Page 4

LEMONS

Sir, —Congratulations to the ■ who signs herself "Disgusted GroJ?*, 1 } If She has pointed out the vital point , If our marketing difficulties. In au- I' a week ago "Grower" mentions l s case for grading, packing, etc. A IS ago I wrote to your paper H that 6s lOd was the cost at my : J&W shed, giving the items. It must eo«ttk fiH Internal Marketing Division 9s to IvM per case for marketing, apart {J!* what they pay for the fruit. The j fW partment should be allowed.to pnyaw their costs. This would ease the ro'jM fly of the grower and the public, H Official figures are that 13,650 w 1 were destroyed in 1941 for vatioui causes. More than this will g 0 " ['! B 1942 unless we can get a price that |r 1 can exist on. We may be g e tti P ? fj--5s 6.40 d per loose bushel, but d«J a i H 33 1-3 per cent for shrinkage andfc, I then what do we get? There were 9000 cases in the V, f ranga depot when people in the South iP Island were yelling their heads off L lemons last year. Why were our lemon, Iff not sent south, instead of iraportj*,, El thousands of cases from Australia y if leaving ours to shrink and decay. It j, 1 common knowledge that thousands d IB cases were dumped last year. ' H The citrus growers' association §1 should fight for 6d per dozen approve ■ quality lemons. Then we can mam© I to exist. Decimal fractions are far fe, Iff yond the writer. All I know is | OT p many cases of lemons we pick and seed M in to the depot and how much trs ■ for them. But it is patent to the B®. jftj plest soul that what we have been get. 1 ting for the past two years is I: enough. W. G. JiEca, 8 Tauranga.