The Stratford Evening Post Will which is Incorporated "THE EGMONT SETTLER" (Established 1890.) TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933 Fruit Export Trade

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 146, 17 January 1933, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post Will which is Incorporated "THE EGMONT SETTLER" (Established 1890.) TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933 Fruit Export Trade

IT is to be hoped that the Fruit Export Control Board has exercised a wise judgment in its decision to entrust to one British firm of brokers the disposal of the whole of the New Zealand apples and pears that are shipped by it. Ihe board has been influenced not only by the consideration that the arrangement which it has made will provide facilities for the orderly distribution of the fruit, but also by the belief that it will have the effect of securing the maintenance of prices at a level that would net to the grower a more satisfactory return than would otherwise be possible. 1 here can, however, be no definite assurance that this belief will be realised. We are already told in a cable message from London that some the brokers disapprove of the policy which the Fruit Export Control Board has resolved to adopt, and if the fruit-growing industry in the Dominion suffers the loss of the goodwill of English firms that have in the past shared in the handling of the produce the arrangement that has been made will have its disadvantages as well as its advantages. Apparently it is considered that under the new policy there will be an avoidance of Ihe chaos that was created last year by New Zealand apples within eleven days. While the distribution of the produce by a single organisation at Home does, as must be agreed, promise a better regulation of supplies than can be looked for when several independent organisations are entrusted with it, it might be supposed that the shipments might be controlled at this end of any disastrous glutting of the market. The fact that, as the chairman of the Fruit Export Control Board has said, the airangement that has been entered into will carry with it certain guarantees on the part of the selected brokers that will pave the growers a greater measure of security than they have enjoyed hitherto may be said to constitute a recommendation 1 of the new policy, but the public is so far left in ignorance concerning the precise nature of these guaranty. JDn the whole it seems to be a matter for satisfaction tharthe agreement covers one season only. The growers’ experiense of it will be the real test of its value. _ .