CO-OPERATIVE EFFICIENCY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 244, 15 October 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)

CO-OPERATIVE EFFICIENCY

AN AUSTRALIAN EXAMPLE. A splendid example has been set by the orchardists of Batlovv, New South Wales, in the southern highlands, in the co-operative handling and marketing oi their produce on standardised lines. A great deal of the progressive spirit that has marked these activities can be attributed to the fact that several of the leaders were men of business experience and training before they came to Batlow to grow fruit and potatoes. The district pioneered the cold storage of fruit in the country and organised the first central packing house for the handling of apples and pears. Later came a potato-growers’ association for the grading and marketing of guaranteed seed and culinary potatoes. Provision is to be made for the extension of these latter operations by the erection of a largo packing-shed of a capacity equal to the district’s output. The fruit-growers’ co-operative organisation is also .bout to embark on the treatment of two additional products that will make still more complete the service to the orchardists. A cider press has been secured, with which it is planed to ut ilise better small and low-grade fruit, primarily for making vinegar. The object of this is to process the walnut, crop, which is of considerable and increasing bulk, and of which probably 50 per cent, is lost, owing to damage by black spot. The proposal is to take the fruit in the immature stage before the fungus disease affects it, and pickle it. A market for the product has boon secured. Protect baby from coughs and colds. Put. a few drops of “NAZOL” on her pillow every night. It’s wonderfully effective. GO Joses for 1/6; 120 doses