'GO THE WHOLE WAY'

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 170, 5 August 1937, Page 8

'GO THE WHOLE WAY'

Onr Own Correspondent.)

Growers Discuss Organisation . for Marketing NEED OF LOCAL GROUPS

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WELLINGTON, This Day. "Growers want to know how far we are going. May I ask how far you want to go?" asked Mr F. R. Picot, Director of Internal Marketing, at the conclusion of his address to the annual conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation yesterday. "The whole way," suggested a number of the delegates. A great zprobiem oonfronting the truitgrowing industry was reject fruit, commented Mr T. W. Attwood, an early president of the federation, in the diacussion which followed Mr Picot's address. This, he said, could be overcome by the growers not growing it; that would obviate the need of having to look to factories and other means to deal with it. The Dominion was strewn with the wreckage of co-operative enterprises which had worked along these lines, Mr Picot remarked that he thought he might have been murdered if he had made a suggestion such as Mr Attwood had made. Stressing the need for organised local groups, Mr Picot said that unless the provinces organised themselves into groups they in turn could not be organised for the benefit of the Dominion. Mr J. A. Campbell, Director of Horticulture, said that reorganisation had to develop along sound and reasonable Lines. The growers themselves ought to be able to suggest something to solve their own problems. As to the right of growerB to market, he wished to point out that no market in the Dominion was the property of any group of growers. The limitation, of grades had its difficulties, as it would lead to the grouping of fruit which should never be grouped. Proper classification of fruit - was necessaryso that the buyer could buy what he wanted, Appreciation of Mr Picot's address was voiced by a uumber of the delegates.