FRUITGROWERS' ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 8 June 1925, Page 3

FRUITGROWERS' ASSOCIATION.

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly ndeeting of the Canterbury Fruitgrower^ ? ?iAssociation was held on Saturday ;night,, Mr H. Freeman presiding over. a,-good attendance. The secretary:jrei>orted that he had written to the Christchurch branch of an oil supply but" the firm had refused to give the Association any reduction on the purchase l of petrol supplies. The same firm offered a discount of 15 per cent, on bulk quantities of spraying oil.. * •

Tho chairman stated-that v tbe" Ass<h ciation's next field'day< would be held at Mr G. W. Anderson's orchard, Papanui, on June 20th, at 2.30 p.m. ■ Mr, D. J. Hogg, orchard inspector of Nelson, in the course of. ;an address ,on marketing conditions, said;that he-had noticed that there was a great deal of "blackspot" in apples in Canterbury this year. This was the/reason' that such a large number of '.notices had been issued during the season, /fend he assured those present that such notices had not been set out unless there was a well-founded complaint, against that particular consignment of fruit. "Ho stressed the necessity of growers complying with the regulations in" marking affected fruit before sending it to the market. . The past season, he said, had been a poor one from the grower's point of view, and crops all over the Dominion had not been up to expectations. Packing and grading .had improved right throughout New Zealand, and he urged growers to send as much fruit as possible overseas. Prices in overseas markets had been exceedingly favourable for New Zealand fruit, arid were much, better than those offered in the Dominion. At the conclusion of his address a voto of thanks was passed to Mr Hogg.