COMMONWEALTH GRADING PROPOSALS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13156, 5 May 1906, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH GRADING PROPOSALS.

OBJECTION IN REGARD TO

FRUIT.

United PredHi Association. — By Electric

Telegraph . — Copyrigliv.

Sydney , r May .4. The Commerce Conference has ; concluded. T?ie v %uit sectional committee objected to" grading and branding of fruit, . holding that it would injure ihe export trade, grading always tendiug, especially in a full market, in favour of the buyer, and against the producer and exporter^; With reference to apples, some markets prefer large, while othtirs desire . small fruit. Another feature of the trade was that size was ,no guarantee of quality.