FRUIT GROWERS' CONFERENCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 9

FRUIT GROWERS' CONFERENCE.

. POINTS FOE DISCUSSION: lUy Toli'trVph-Preiis Association.) L „ . . Chrlstchurchi September 27. ' «> 'in# Canterbury . .fruitgrowers'- Association suggest 'discussion on the following witters at the conference.to 'be held at Wellington on ■November 3:— v 1. Registration of orchards of from ono tree upwards, and all fruit to be sold under a registoed brand, or under the; grower's '.natae. ,- 2. Inspectors to.havo a ; definite limited area; and.to be,responsible to-headquarters in Wellington only with regard to tho better enforcement of tho Orchard and Garden Pests Act. 3. Uniformity of cases, or net weight , to bo marked oh nil cases, and no second-hand cases to be used without being properly cleansed, _i! The"Neiy Zealand, farmer''- to bo;tho'offi-i cml orgah or-the I'Vuitgrowers'. Associations of the. Dominion. ■ .; 5 Better handling of fruit in shipping. : •C. 1-Yuit to.bo carried, at railway risks. .; 7. Thorn'fences as a-menace-to. orchards. • ;' : 8..-Yalue;.of different sprays.-; i • i #< Experiment stations for different centres.- ; 10: I hat sellers give a guarantee of purity of sulphate of copper. ■' , •',ll..That manuro ; analyses be madomoro lucid to grower or buyer. 12. Tlj'at the (jovornmcnt, establish a system qf , throughbookings on railways by the intro-: diction or facilities (through too medium ; of the railways.and-tho present-steamship com'.Mies):pf booking-goods of any'sort irom aridt'S any and all towns within tho Dominion. ' 13. Tho ; advisability of opening wholesale and | rytail, fruit stores, jn tho principal towns ,of New Zealand. : , •'•'"'••I H.Tho non-Tesponsibility of .shipping companies. for pillage and decay. . ,| ,15;_ Arrangements ifor. obtaining ; combined i Dominion orders for 'various requisites, such I as oil, ; arsenate, bluestonc, etc. 1 . 18, Municipal and other markets, arid thd Auctioneers Act. ■ '