AUSTRALIAN FRUIT INDUSTRY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 353, 9 September 1933, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN FRUIT INDUSTRY

Press. Association. —Copyright. London, Sept. 8

Mr. C. J. Parnham, a leading Victorian fruit exporter who investigated the marketing of Australian fruit, interviewed by the Australian Press Association, definitely expressed the opinion that it was essential that growers should be educated and organised to ship only popular varieties in regular consignments only through agents representing outstanding British auction brokers and private treaty firms of the highest repute and having sales organisations throughout the United Kingdom. Shipping companies would welcome a reduction in the number of shippers, which would automatically reduce the number of receivers, thus enabling more satisfactory space arrangements, better regulation of supplies and stabilisation of the markets. Shipping companies would welcome the formation of an inter-State freight committee. Leading brokers in England considered the quantity of apples shipped in 1933 was too great and thought the total Australian and New Zealand shipments for profitable results should not exceed 4,000,000 cases, or 4,500,000 at the utmost.