PURCHASE BY STATE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 8

PURCHASE BY STATE

EXPORTABLE FRUIT

CONDITIONS IMPROVED

| HAWKE'S BAY-GROWERS

(Per Press Associatiot i HASTINGS, this clay. With only one dissentient, about GO Hawke’s Bay .fruitgrowers decided at a general meeting on Saturday night to agree to the offer by the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nasn, to j purchase 1.000,000 cases of exportable quality fruit at 7s f.0.b., provided that the export will not unduly embarrass the cool stores’ requirements ol the local market sales, and that charges on cool storage for export be on a | parity with the average cool storage | charge on export fruit for the past j five years, and that the Minister pro--1 vide facilities by which a cash ad- ! vance of 5s a case be made to grow- | ers to finance the local market, por- | tion of the crops. It was pointed out j that the door is still open for negotiaS tions and the Hawke’s Bay reprcsentaj tives of the industry on the growers’ organisations, which have met the ! Minister, said they were convinced that in a short time some scheme would be evolved which would enable the growers to carry on. The industry's representatives were not out to fleece the Government but they were not going to agree to anything I unless it would give the growers a j reasonable standard of living.