FRUIT-GROWING INDUSTRY
CONFERENCE OF FEDERATION MARKETING OF APPLES AND PEARS (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON. Aug. 10. The Fruitgrowers’ Conference decided to recommend that it be an offence to offer immature dessert fruit to the public unless advertised as such. Mr Dallas (Director of Horticulture) said some growers did pick fruit earlier than they should, and the department would endeavour as far as practicable to warn growers against the practice. *He said the department did not like to introduce picking dates. If the Government purchased the fruit, no doubt it would establish such dates, but until the department knew what was going to be done it did not propose to do anything in this direction. The delegate suggested that the public could be warned against buying certain varieties before certain dates. There was no doubt that there was a tendency to rush the market with lines that were popular.
The action of the Fruit Export Control Board and the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation in asking the Government to take over the marketing of apples and pears was endorsed by 13 votes to 11.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23884, 11 August 1939, Page 11
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