HOW MANY GRADES?

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 8

HOW MANY GRADES?

Our Own Correspondent.)

Apples for the LocaL Market DIRECTOR ADVISES EIGHT

(From

WELLINGTON, This Day. The. grades of fruit to be instituted for the local marketing of apples and pears -has been given much atterition by the conferenee of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation in Wellington. Dissatisfaction was expressed by several delegates at the proposals of the Standards Institute that there should be eight grades for apples. Mr F. It. Picot, Director of Internal Marketing, when adderssing the conferenee suggested that standardisation, to ' be effective, would have to be on simple lines and that grades Bhould not be so numerous as to cause confusion. Following a lengthy discussion on a remit from Motueka that there should be not more than threO grades for apples and two grades for pears, the 1'ollqwing amendment moved by Mr R. Paynter, of Hawke's Bay, was agreed to: "That the whole matter be Teferred to the Standards Institute and the Internal -Marketing Department with the recommendation that the number oi grades be reduced and the deeision transferred back to the Advisorv Board." '/In.regard to the standardisation of fruit it is an easy matter to talk about a limited number of grades — but where would it lead to?" asked Mr .1 A. Campbell, Director of Horticulture, when defending the proposal to havt eLgkt grades, as reeommended by the 8tandards Institute"I eannot give a better illustration Jian that of wo-ol, whieh is classifiec irto numerous grades," said Mr Campbell. "The wool industry was not bhely ta reduce tho number of grades es-eiitial to the good marketing oi wool. If the grades for fruit are lim Utu to lliree it will result in the gronp ing ot fruit that should not bo grouped having too few grades -'Mtulardisa i.-t'u would losa its merit. "