FRUIT EXPORT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17175, 27 October 1926, Page 6

FRUIT EXPORT

GUARANTEE RENEWAL LAST SEASON'S LOSSES (Special to the Herald.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Government has decided, on the recommendation of the Hon. O. J. Hawken, Minister of Agriculture, to providte N a further guarantee for exporters of New Zealand apples and pears for the coming season. The opinion is held officially that although last season's experience under the fruit guarantee was this is a growing industry involving intensive cultivation and high production from land unsuitable for arable, or dairy farming, and is consequently well worth encouragement in the struggling stage*. Fruitgrowers, through organisation and the. Government grading system, are exporting lines which compare very favorably with those from Competitive countries. In renewing the guarantee the Government has elitninated any undertaking to give growers a profit of Id per lb., as was the ease under the former arrangements. It has substituted a guarantee, up to lOs 6d per case, of the expenses involved in marketing and packing. By its grading and inspection system, and the export regulations, the "Government will insure itself against the export of unsuitable fruit

The new arrangement doe9' not specify any limit to the quantity exported undlei the guarantee. Final claims are not yet presented under last season's guarantee, but it is estimated that nearly £90,000 is involved.