FRUIT STANDARDISATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 19

FRUIT STANDARDISATION

APPROVAL IN DOMINION OPINIONS OF OFFICIAL CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. “After the standardisation of fruit has been in operation for four months it is so well established that I am satisfied that no branch of the industry, growers, wholesalers or retailers. would abandon it ior the old order of things,” said the fruit standardisation officer of -the Department of Agriculture, Mr. J. 11. Thorp, addressing the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation Limited at the annual conference in Wellington yesterday. The conference adopted a resolution to the effect that the present local market regulations in relation to grades should remain in force I 'for another year. An amendment that, in view of the continued glutted state of the local apple market, the Government be reauested to permit only four grades of this fruit to be sold, extra fancy, fancy, commercial A and commercial B, was defeated. Mr. It. Payneter (Hawke’s Bay), in supporting the amendment, said that some growers believed that if the movement to manufacture apple juice went ahead, there would not be any apples below fancy grade on the fresh fruit market. A suggestion that the local market regulations should provide for opening dates for all varieties of apples and pears was referred to the advisory committees in the various districts, with the request that they confer with orchard instructors and make further recommendations. It was decided that sales of mixed fruits should be permissable from growers direct to consumers, where the customer required mixed varieties of fruit for domestic use. The director of horticulture, Mr. J. A. Campbell, said that such private sales would be permitted.