CITRUS INDUSTRY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 14

CITRUS INDUSTRY

Our Own Correspondent.)

Reorganisation Planned

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AUOKLAND, Last Night. A' questionnaire is being circulatod among Auckland citrus fruit grower3 asking for their opinion on a number o£ questions of vital importance to the industry. Mr Alan D. Thomson, secretaTy to the Auckland Citrus GroweTs' Asspciation stated that his executive hoped to obtain a large number of replies, with reliable information which would be of great assistance in reorganisation of citrus marketing. The questionnaire covers a wide field, including questions xelating to . a further representative for Auckland on the marketing authority now being set np,

on the manner of distribution of citrus fruit under the control of the marketing authority, size and number of curing houses, and whether a co-opera-tive association or a private firm is desired in the event of it becoming necessary for growers to send their fruit through one shed. . There are further questions in regard to the number of citrus trees of diffefent type in respective districts. The questionnaire has been drawn up to make as easy as possible the task of growers in funishing Teplies. The association has appointed as returning offlcers a firm specially qualifed to do the work, and to hold the replies in trust after results have been tabulated. Mr Thomson remarked that the number of replies received would indicate the interest which citrus growers are taking in their own affairs, and it was to be hoped that all growers with small or large orchards would assist in the compilation of very necessary statistics and information.