FRUIT MARKETING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 95, 8 May 1937, Page 9

FRUIT MARKETING

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Report Supported by Retaiiers PROFIT MARGINS OPPOSED

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AUCKLAND, Last Night. Withi the e^eeptidn of the olause recommending the limiting of profita to 3 per cent, the report of the Fruit Marketing Committee, which was pubiiahed recently, was eni|orsed by« a meeting of the New Zealand Furopean Fruit and Vegetable Retail Traders' Assowation. "Experience tells us that the fixing of a maximum profit of 33 per cent is unworkable, (%nd against the inteyests of the whole trade," eaid the president, Mr tt, A. Kealey, The meeting expressed strong approval of the suggestion oi the committee that for the purposes of identifieation of Asiatios a thumb print system be instituted. Asiatics, it was contended, had houted the law of the country, It was repeatedly contended, when proseeutions were sought, that the pifenders oould not be identiiied, There was no indignity in a fchumb print system when identifieation was so diiiioult. "1 fail to see that a thumb print system violates any religious or iuternational law," said the president. The seoretary, Mr E. G, Staley, said there was very attle ditt'erence in taking thumb prints from the photographio system ior passports. The merohants and wholesalers had asked for the system their own protection. Mr Staley cited the cese of a Chinese frfiiterer who had become bankrupt, and had gone to another town and started business there. When questioned, the Ghinese had denied that he was bankrupt, and nothing could be done. A resolution was passed supportiDg the committee' s report, witb the exeeption of tfie maximum profit olause.