A STANDARD FRUIT CASE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2126, 18 April 1914, Page 8

A STANDARD FRUIT CASE

.GRO^TiES 3 EECO JDIEXD ATIOX, (Bj- Teles:ra.ph!— Press Association.) -"•"';.•'• ' Auckland,'. April 17. . A discussion took place to-day at a meeting, of- fruitgrowers; 'on-, a .proposal favouring tlio' adoption ,of. the,standard bushel.case,< for. apples and poars. •■* Mr.J. B. Tohar C\V alternate -Co-oporativo Society) said tlio proposed "case was; not tho s'aino as'tjie Canadian .case-.- The latest instructions".of tho .Canadian .Government wero 'that none but standard cases Bh'aH'bp carried.ontlieirrailways.' Thore ,\vas .tliusva'ch'a'ncb-that'the:,lloo cases: of fruib which left liere by the Niagara last wcok will havo to be repacked before consignment on- tlie Canadian.' railways. ■ . ■ . Mr. E. • Morrison OVarkivorth) recommended the new ■' square case gested by tlio Governmentj on the ground that it contained'an imperial bu'sliel. A standard'.New; .Zealand case would «oon bcoomo known in. outside markots. ■ - . '- ' . ■•■ • -.-. ' • :Tho. chairman said tliab-. wiat they, ■n-anted , was. uniformity.- : .'.•::> ■Mr.-Tonar stated that a reprcsenta-. tive of a Canadian firm which handled nioro fruit oacli year.thaiv Now Zea - - land would, produce in twenty years, had told him that tho ..new caso.would not bo accepted in Canada, so strict were tho railway .regulations. Hβ suggested awaiting reports,.. wliioh were expected from Canada. ~.".., It was agreed to mommend to the Government tho adoption, of a standard 'casp. • . ■