FRUITGROWERS & PREMIER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1848, 6 September 1913, Page 8

FRUITGROWERS & PREMIER.

DEPUTATION'S WANTS, Yesterday a. deputation from the conference of fruitgrowers waited on the Primo Minister (the Hon'. W. F. Massoy) to bring under liisr notice certain resolutions passed by the conference early this week. Tlio. members of t'ho deputation were: Messrs. J. Longton (Canterbury), S. Martell (HaWke's Bay), A. M. Robertson (Hawke's Day), W. Purvis (Hawko's Bay), and A. M'Keo (Nelson). Briefly, t'ho deputation urged:—(l) That wTiere a municipal market was established tlio Government should compel all auctioneers selling fish, fruit, and vegetables to sell in that market. (2) That temporary fruit inspectors should bo appointed during tho busy season. (3) That tho. planting of black poplar and other timbers suitable for fruit cases should be taken in hand by the Government, and that the areas should bo adjacent to fruit-growing districts.. (4) That all spraying materials should bo sold under guarantee of purity and strengtli. (5) That protection bo removed from red deer within tho boundaries of recognised fruit-growing listrifcts. (6) That the Government sliould send a-representative to South-America to collect information to place tho ox-* port of fruit from New Zealand to that country, on a, firm basis. (7) That tlio Government secure space for a conspicuous, exliibit at tlio Panama Exposition in 1915, and that arrangements bo made ' by tho Department of Agriculture with the various fruitgrowers associations throughout tlio Dominion to co-operato by providing sectional, exhibits. (8) the duty, bo removed on fruit-wrapping paper; and (9) that ill vietf of the steady increase in fruit production and the large areas still being planted, tho time has arrived wlien a levy of 6d. per aero or part acre per annum should bo made on all orchards in NoVv Zealand over four years old, such moneys to be collected by tho Government and banded over to tlio executive of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation, to bo used by tne'm for the bpening-up of .new markets at Home and abroad, and for tlio furtherance of .tlio general interests' of orchards. Prime Minister's* Answer. Tho Frimo Minister, in reply, expressed sympathy with several of tho requests. The matter of. municipal markets might bo dealt with in connection with a local bodies Bill.at present beforo the House. Ho believed tho Forestry Commission had made a recommendation ' on the question of timber for' fruit cases that haa been-raised. In regard to removing protection from red deer, he had always held that w'hen it came to a mattor between business and sport they had to consider business first. Ho thought his colleague in charge of tho Department (the Hon. H. D. Bell) was sympathetically inclined to the deputation's idea. Ho would consult the Minister for Customs concerning the removal of duty from fruit-wrapping paper. He considered the duty was an unfair handicap on what was likely to become a very important industry. The' ; question of the proposed tax on acreage, ' he would give consideration, but he saw ' somo difficulty in connection therewith. ' ... . 1 Our Footing In America. i Coming to tho question of sending a , representative to South America,. and ] having exhibits at the, Panama, 'Exliibi- i tion, Sir. Massey said the matter of re- i presentation at the Exhibition had been considered by Cabinet, and it had been ] decided that it should not. bo done. ; However, in view of the' passing into law of the v American tariff, and the consequent increase of business that could bo expected' therefrom, he thought it would be a • mistake not to have New Zealand represented 'at the San .Film- i cisco Exhibition.- Ho would bring the J question beforo Cabincti again. . *• ' l FOR THE ARGENTINE/ i ' , i By tlio s.s. Kumara, which sailed J from Wellington on Thursday, Sept-em- ( her 4, Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Paliherston North, report having shipped to the order of an extensive land-owner in tho Argentine, 150 Romney ram hoggets and 50 Lincolns. The. former were selected from tho flock of Mr. Robert Tanner, of Longburn, anil the Lin- ] coins wcro taken from Mr. R. B. Ham- j ilton's flock at Mamitahi. Both lots < went forward in oxcellent order. J .- APPLE LAND. 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