COOL STORAGE
Heavy Demand On Space By Telegraph —Hies? Association WELLINGTON, April 8 The reasons for the regulations gazetted last week prohibiting the deposit of fruit in cool stores except by a permit from the Food Controller were explained by the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, in a statement to-day. Because of the war a severe demand was made on cool storage space of the Dominion, said the Minister. The Food Controller was now responsible for the storage of apples and pears as the Government had undertaken to purchase this season's crop from the growers and to make all the necessary arrangements for its marketing locally and overseas. The severe limitation upon overseas shipments of fruit meant the accumulation of greater stocks locally, and it was therefore necessary for the Government to have command of cool store space to preserve fruit in good order. “Even in normal times the amount of cool store space in New Zealand available for the fruit-growing industry' has been insufficient.” said the Minister, “and this year it is essential that the Government should have first call upon storage space for the effective handling of the apple and pear crop in accordance with the undertaking given to the fruit-growing industry.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21624, 9 April 1940, Page 6
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207COOL STORAGE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21624, 9 April 1940, Page 6
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