PRODUCTION OF FRUIT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25302, 12 August 1943, Page 5

PRODUCTION OF FRUIT

GROWERS REQUEST HIGHER PAYMENTS (PA.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 11. The New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, at its conference to-day, carried the following motion:— “That this conference places on record its keen sense of disappointment and dissatisfaction with the decision of the Goverment to fix the purchase price of apples and pears at 5s 3d a case and 9d allowance for increased, costs, when, in fact, the assessed cost of production is 6s 7sd a easel Believing, however, that the policy of stabilisation is of great importance to the financial and economic stability of the Dominion, the conference requests, in order to effect an improvement from the position of 5s 3d and 9d—(l) That a bonus on early fruit be paid by the Government outside tne Dominion average; (2) that the standard pack be a plain linen pad and alternate wrap, (3) that the inspection fee be abolished, (4) that the allowance of 9d for increased costs be raised to Is, (5) that without a reduction to pear growers the price for pears be entirely separated from that of apples, so that the Dominion overall average for apples will be not less than the overall average for the past season, (6) that smaller fruit and all edible fruit offered by growers be accepted within the overall average, (7) that whatever decision is come to in relation to the above requests, this conference asks that for the coming season the overall average for apples be not less than the present assessed cost of production.”