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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4491, 13 November 1922, Page 2

"NiW Zealand is strewn from one end of the country to the ether with the wrecks of fruitgrowers’ co-opera-tive enterprises,” said Mr Attwood, president of the Fruitgrowers’ Federation, during the course of an address to Gisborne growers (reports the Gisborne Times), “The reason is that they haVe sought to exclude business men from their concerns, seeking to run theni by growers alone, who, however good they may be at growing fruit, are often hopelessly ihebpablc of managing a business. The sopher the individual grower confines his at-' tention to growing the fruit .and gives up trying to market it, the sooner will the Industry progress.” The lemon pool at Auckland aimed to keep the market just sufficiently well supplied to keep prices’ at a payable level, but Oh one occasion a grower, not a member of the pool, placed, without notice, a large consignment on the market, with the result that on that day the prices fell from £1 Os 3d per case to Ils. The pool then withdrew all supplies for three or four days, and at the end of that time the buyers who had taken their lemons almost as a favour at Ils were glad to get them at 22s 6d per case. "But lest you should think that the pool is put to exploit the public,” continued Mr Attwood, "it is only necessary to tell you that those same buyers were at the same time payi’ng 25s to 28s a case for Australian lemons and £2 5s for Californian.”