FRUIT GROWERS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1924, Page 1

FRUIT GROWERS

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Htv TlXllfi ltAl'H—l-Kll l-ItHSS ASSOCIATION. I WKI.i.INCK IN'. .1 uni- 11. 111.- animal < niii'erem,- .4' ,lie \,->v Zealand I'l nit jin, vers' A -m int ion n| mied I'l-day. Mr M. |{ohortsoli (l!an l-.-’s |tii v) |.ii"-idinx. I li,- ii■!!,»'.’• in*. i<• mils were rel’eried In a nunililit 11 . and Mil sripirnt ly a di'i utatimi is to w:iit on die .Minister ' mevrning tlieiii: - I lull ow in- to llm 10-- sustained annually l:y fruitgrowers mi tin- transport 111 1 1 nil ilirnie.di the piosont iu-(■>>iii!*l<-ti> system nf vein ilatimi of fruit truck-, the .Mini-lcr lor Kailaays he asked : i fin lher ( cn-idi r lie iul r<>. )*■■-_ timi nf Me..h i n tnii 1,, for i; nil iradio i I’evinl). That lielier fruit trueks le -n|i|lied at Crniu'.'ell for the earryiim nf next seas, m\s fruit (t'|>j.cr Cliitha). 'I hat llm liailwav i fniiai t men I lie asl,ad In I'l'nvide a greater nuinhi.|- nf huit waggons lor ihn Auckland | rnvin, a (I lend, t -on). Thai the llailway Depart men t lie asked In keep nn ihe supply nf fruit wag-: gnns iii aeuirdauee will, ihe ini Teased Pi ..din! inn nf fruit (Hawke’s Day). It was resolved that, a- there i- a possibility nf the exteti-inn nf the railway fioin Dnanmnm pa-t Miller.-' Flat, its present objective. the CmifereiKe, through till" Federation, urges tlfnll tile Oi'veniment the necessity of extending it as far ns Hoxhiirgli.

AN* it hunt d-ieii-simi. the following remit from lluapai was agreed to: ”'llial, in view of the recent Oider-in-Couia'il -luting that the flail,vay Deliii'.imenl may sell hy auction any fruit left at a station longer than six hour-, the (ioVorumcni he approached with a view in having this Order, as applied to I’i nit, rescinded, mi the grounds that as it i- not always possible for con-

signee* to remove fruit within the time stated, undue hardship and less

is apt to result." It wa* decided to rotommond that in the li-'. of varieties of apples for export to ‘smith America. Cleopatra and Xew Town pippin should he included. Mr Moody (Cpper Clutlm) moved that the Depaitim-m should lie a-ked

v. li.it was heing done in the matter of an On-haul Instructor for Central Otago. He -aid ii seemed impossible to get any time from the 1.-.isy In-true-tor at all in Central Otago. An. He r speaker said it „n- absolutely impossible for a man who-e duty it was te (over ihe district to cope with the work. i.e representative of the Depaitmeut (Mr Camphell) -aid there was a nig strain mi the nllieei’.s to cole with the work. lon possibly the pe-itinn Would he remedied in the near futiiic. They were doing tlu-ir hast to have men appointed for Central Otago. It wn« decided to support the re.|iirst.