FRUITGROWERS’ CONFERENCE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6964, 2 November 1909, Page 3

FRUITGROWERS’ CONFERENCE

SITS TO-MOEEOW-SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED. The conference of .New Zealand fruitgrowers, promoted by the Christchurch Fruitgrowers’ Association, will commence at 10.30 a.m. to-morrow in the Dominion Museum. DELEGATES. The delegates are as follow: —Birkenhead and Northcote, W. Charman; Brightwater, W. Lightband; Canterbury, P. Sisson, S. I. Fitch, and E. Wilkinson; Feilding, A. E. Mayo; Geraldine, M. Campbell; Hawke's Bay, W. H. Smith and H. Cook; Motueka, H. Everett and C. Lowe; Montere, C. H. Mackay; Ngatfanoti, E- Croudis; Northern Fruitgrowers' Council, J. Pan*; Peel Forest, W. E. Barker; Port Albert, D. Beecroft; Eiwaka, A. E. Fry; Stoke, A. P. Allport, H. C. Jacka, and E. B, Izard; Teviot, J. Bennetts and H. Yeale; Wanganui, F. Sisson. Official delegates, Director of Orchards, etc., T. W. Kirk; Biologist, A. H. Cockayne; • Assistant Director of Orchards, W, A. Boucher. OEDEE PAPER.

The conference will be officially opened, and an .address is then expected from the Minister for Agriculture. Following are the subjects to be discussed;r-, Canterbury.—Registration of orchards of from one tree upwards, and all fruit to be sold under a registered brand, or the grower’s name; inspectors to have a definite limited area, and to ha responsible to headquarters—in Wellington only —with a view to the better enforcement of the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act; uniformity of cases, or nett weight to be marked on all coses, and no second-hand cases to bo used without being properly cleansed; "New Zealand Farmer’’ to be tho official organ for the Fruit Growers’ Associations of the Dominion; better handling of fruit in shipping; fruit to be earned at railway risk; thorn, fences as a menace to orchardiste; value of different sprays; experimental stations for different centres; the non-respon-sibility of shipping companies for pillage aid decay; arrangements for obtaining combined Dominion orders for various requisites, e.g., oil, arsenate, bluestone, etc.; municipal—or other—markets and the Auctioneers Act.

Stoke.—That' sellers give a guarantee of the purity of sulphate of copper; that manure analyses aro made more lucid to the grower or buyer: that the Government establish a system of "through booking” on the New Zealand railways by introducing facilities through the medium of railways and present steamship companies., of booking goods of any sort from and to any and all towns within the Dominion; the effect of the Panama Canal on our fruit industry. Northern Fruitgrowers' Council.—That properly ventilated cars be provided for the conveyance of fruit on the Now Zealand railways; the necessity of organisation for the better knowledge of probable output and distribution of fruit throughout the Dominion.

Teviot. The advisability of having frnit carried by express trains. Ngatimoti.—The advisability of opening wholesale and retail fruit stores in the principal towns in New Zealand. Hawke’s Bay.—The advisability of requesting the Government to allow the importation of German owls as an antidote to the small bird pest; that chemists in the Dominion bo asked to make an arsenate of lead under Government guarantee. Papers are to be read by the Biologist, Mr A. H. Cockayne, on -"Emulsifying

Oils," and by the Assistant Director of Orchards, etc., Mr W. A. Boucher, on "Our Fruit Industry, with Practical Hints on Fruit Culture.”