PRICE TOO LOW

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 30 October 1939, Page 9

PRICE TOO LOW

FRUIT FOR EXPORT PURCHASE BY STATE HAWKE’S BAY OPINION PIP FRUIT CONTROL (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. Dissatisfaction with the offer made by the Government for the purchase of 1,000,000 cases of fruit at 6s 9d f.0.b., was expressed at a mass meeting of 150 Hawke’s Bay orchardists at Hastings on Saturday night. Support was given to the Nelson growers in urging that pip fruits be marketed by the Government and the Fruit Advisory Committee. The general tone of the meeting revealed a high degree of unity among the growers, there being only one dissentient to the following resolution: "That this combined meeting of Hawke’s Bay fruitgrowers urges the Government, in co-operation with the Fruit Advisory Committee, to take over the marketing of apples and pears, as promised by the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, earlier in the year, and that, having given careful and anxious consideration to the question of assistance to be given to pip fruit growers for the coming season, it stresses the necessity of making payment at inspection points covering the actual cost of production of all fruit.”

An amendment, was added urging that the present Fruit. Board be increased in personnel by two representatives of the Fruitgrowers’ Federation, two from the Internal Marketing Department and one from the Department of Agriculture, making a total of 11 members.