FRUIT PACKING

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12660, 21 January 1927, Page 7

FRUIT PACKING

FAIR SELLING TOP LAYERS FAIR SAMPLE OF WHOLE. How many of us have bought a punnet or basket of fruit, and found that the underneath layers did not compare with the top layer for size or quality? Under the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act the reparations have been revised as follows to deal with this aspect of the fruit trade: — 1. For the purposes of these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires : “Fruit” means the unmanufactured edible product of any orchard or garden plant, and includes potatoes, onions, tomatoes, and all other vegetables. 2. All fruit sold, or offered or exposed for sale, whether wholesale or retell, in a container shall be packed in such a manner that any fruit exposed to view, or that would be exposed to view if the container were opened in the normal manner, fairly represents in size, maturity/and condition the whole contents of the container. 3. All strcyvberries, loganberries, raspberries, or cherries said, or offered or exposed tor sale, in containers of a capacity not exceeding 31b net weight of the fruit contained therein shall be so packed that tho container is full of fruit.

4. Nothing in these regulations shall be held to prohibit “facing”—that is to say, the methodical arrangement of the individual fruits that are exposed to view in a container —pros ided the requirements of clause 2 hereof are complied with. '