IMMATURE FRUIT SALES
GROWERS’ OBJECTION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation conference decided to recommend that it be an olTence to offer immature dessert fruit to the public unless it is advertised as such. Mr. Dallas, Director of Horticulture, said that some growers picked fruit earlier than they should, and the department would endeavour as far as practicable to warn growers against the practice. He said the department did not like to introduce picking dates. ' If the Government purchased the fruit, no doubt it would establish such dates, but until the department knew what was going to be done, it did not propose to do anything in this direction. A delegate suggested that the public could be warned against buying certain varieties before certain dates. There was no doubt there was a tendency to rush the market with lines that were popular. The action of the Fruit Export Control Board and the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation in asking ;he Government to take over the marketing cf apples and pears, was endorsed by 13 votes to 11.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20013, 11 August 1939, Page 7
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