TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 10

TELEGRAMS

(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 20. As a result of dissensions between the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation and the Department of Agriculture in regard to proposals to enable the fruitgrowers of iho dominion lo regulate more, satisfactorily the disposal of their exportable surplus of fruit in the overseas markets, a committee consisting of representatives of the growers in the several exporting districts has been set up for the purpose of supervising export arrangements, and conferring witn the department as to conditions of guarantee on exnort fruit the coming season. This committee will endeavour generally to co-ordinate all interests concerned in the export of fruit, with a view to bringing about stable and good marketing conditions for the future. The committee consists of Mr A. M. Robertson (Hawke's Bay). Mr T. C. Brash (Wellington). Mr .1. Allen (Nelson), Colonel Gray (Nelson), Mr H. Turner (Otago), and will bo known as the Fruit Export Advisory Committee.

The president and the secretary of the TTnited Fire Brigades’ Association iMessrs Barnard and Walls) waited on the general manager of railways in Wellington on Saturday in connection with the recently published report regarding the disbandment of the railway fire brigades. Mr M'Villy stated that the report of the disbandment npnlied only to the Dunedin Railway Fire Brigade. Other brigades were nei affected. A wooden 15-roomed house in Hurst more road. T.d-nnuna,. owned and occupied ijy Charles Chileoft, was destroyed by fire tonight. The occupants had just left the bouse for an entertainment leaving a, spent fire in fho kitchen. The insurance on the house was £2OO and on the furniture £2OO.