EXPORT OF FRUIT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18580, 14 December 1934, Page 13

EXPORT OF FRUIT

QUANTITY RESTRICTION AUSTRALIAN COOPERA- ! TION The'London representative of the New Zealand'Th’uitJßoard, Mr. 11. Turner, in. addressing, the- annual meeting of the ()taeo Provincial'Fruitgrowers’ Council' at Dunedin, made reference to the recent| visit:of.four delegates from,Australia to Wellington to confer with- the, Fruit Board regarding some modification- of. export quantities in future. Without being .able at the moment to

’divulge.actual figures, Mr. Turner said that*au agreement had been 'reached in regard to the quantity which it was proposed to send to the United Kingc|pin irt 1935, and that iheprdportioji allotted for New Zealand would, it was hoped, be sufficient, to avoid ev)t}ing doyyji any quantities offering for shipment. .Australia had adopted the grade iiames .lisecl by Now Zealand, namely, extra' fattey and fancy, and she had also agreed upon a color standard. Both Australia ain't New Zealand Intel reduced t lie tnunljer of varieties to lie approved fbr.- export and, had cut- out-some of the less popular. sizes. While he would not be prepared to say that the quantities agreed upon for 1935 would he sufficiently reduced definitely to assure payable prices, there would at least be a check on more or less irresponsible, .shipping, said Mr. Tumor. The results of 1935 would be watched