BUTTER AND FRUIT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16202, 27 November 1926, Page 5

BUTTER AND FRUIT

INCREASED FIGURES MODERN METHODS “ There has been a considerable increase in the quantity of fruit handled this season in our fruit storage department, and our local fruitgrowers are taking full advantage of the accomodation offered with, one hopes and understands, considerable benefit to themselves,” remarked Mr, J. W. Nolan, chairman of directors, at the annual general meeting of the Gisborne Sheepfarmers’ F.M. and M. Co. to-day. “ It is pleasing to be able to record that the fruit from the chambers is a distinct improvement in quality and soundness on that of the fruit handled last season,” he continued. ' “ This, of course, may be a case of ‘ experientia docet,’ Both on the part of the growers and of the freezing company, but be this as it may, there is no getting away from results, which this season are eminently satisfactory, some of the fruit now in the chambers, and' which has been there the whole season, being as sound and palatable as the clay it was put in. During the season some 3550 eases were cooled, got up for and shipped to the English market with, I understand, quite satisfactory results to the vendors. I notice that the embargo on shipment of New Zealand fruit to the Argentine has been removed, which should open up an extensive market for our fruits.

“ There is no doubt that this fruit industry will improve and add materially to the output of the Dominion, but unless it is taken up and worked on up-to-date and business methods, it cannot and will not be the success it ought to be. The Government evidently appreciates the prospective outlook for this industry, and the difficulties itbdcr which fruitgrowers at present operate, as it is now subsidising the industry. This subsidy, I take it, will only continue during what might be termed the learning period. It therefore behoves the grower and the preserver to make the host use of their opportunity, and bring their methods of producing light up-to-date. “We are now handling tho butter from the Kia. Ora, Clcitu, Tolaga Bay, and Ruatovia factories. The quantity bandied tins season was considerably less than that- of the previous year, attributable, no to the extremely dry season, which indeed was a very severe one for the dairyfarmers.”