FRUIT FOR EXPORT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 256, 30 October 1939, Page 3

FRUIT FOR EXPORT

GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS ! DISCUSSED ; PRICE SI <.(,ESTED INSITFICIENT TO MEET COSTS I Per !', .• Association.} Auckland, Oct. 29. ' ' The Government's proposal tu pur-.’ i chase 1,000,000 cases of fruit lor ex- i I port this coming season at 6s 9d f.0.b., ; were discussed at a meeting of fruitgrowers on Saturday night. The price ■ offered was cricticised as insufficient to meet the cost of production. j Resolutions passed suggested it 'should be on a mote satisfactory basis. ! |Recommendations that the Govern- ! •ment purchase 1,500,000 cases of fruit; ! for export and that the price agreed' | upon should not be less than 6s 6d per | I.standard bushel case were passed by ! I the meeting, representing the grow--jer.s of Henderson and Oratia districts, j I This is equivalent approximately to 7s iSd f.o.b. HAWKE’S BAY MEETING : RECOMMENDATIONS TO GOVERNMENT

( Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, Oct. 29. • Dissatisfaction with lhe offer made 'by lhe Government for lhe purchase Jof a million cases of fruit at 6s 9d f.0.b., was expressed al a mass meeting of 150 Hawke’s Bay orchardists at | Hastings on Saturday night. Support i w’as given Nelson growers urging that ! pip fruits be marketed by the Govern-! ment. and the Fruit Advisory Committee. The general tone of lhe meeting revealed a high degree of unity among the growers, there being only one dissentient to the following resolution: "That, this combined meeting of Hawke's Bay fruitgrowers urges the . |Government, in co-operation with the Friut Advisory Committee, to take over the marketing of apples and pears a.s promised by the Minister of Marketing earlier in the year, and that having given careful and anxious consideration to the question of the assistance to he given, pip friut growers for tne coming season, it stresses i the necessity for making payment at inspection points covering the actual cost of production of all fruit” An amendment was added, urging that (he present Fruit Board be increased in personnel by two representatives from the Fruitgrowers’ Federation. two from the Internal Mari keting Department, and one from the Department of Agriculture, making a total of 11 members.