REJECT FRUIT MARKET
Our Own Correspondent.)
(From
Must Be Found, Says Delegate HUM0UR AT CONFERENCE
WELLINGTON, This Day. "Our local market absorbs. two-thirds of our output, and it will sooh be seven-eights judging by tho way that the export chariot is going, which is going slower and slower," said Mr C. Ballantyne, of Auckland, when urging at yesterday's conferenee of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation that a market would have to be provided for reject fruit. "The public does not want higkgrade fruit in quantity," ho continued. "What we want is consumption. A market must be found for reject fruit. Mr Canipbell? Director of Horticulture, insists tliat it will work out its own salvation in tliat the growers won't grow it because tho public won't buy :t. 1 don't belitve it. There ih the class wo might ea 1,1 jug-feeil, and we have to rcmember that ,thore is a diff erence between men and pigs. " ^ hat is the dillereneo r" asked a delegate. "Men will eat any thing and piVs won t," replied Mr Ba'llantjne amid laughter. "The whole of our discussions have been tinged with export, and until we have got rid of that we shall get 110where," added Mr Ballantvne amid a chorus of "No" from delegates.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 8
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