FRUITGROWERS MEET

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 694, 20 June 1929, Page 6

FRUITGROWERS MEET

ANNUAL CONFERENCE HELD The annual conference of the Auckland Provincial Fruitgrowers’ Association met yesterday, Mr. H. S. Izard, the local director, presiding. Mr. T. C. Brash, the Dominion president, and the secretary, Mr. N. E. Napier, were present. The meeting decided to support the proposed amendment to the constitution, which would be moved at the Dominion Conference in Wellington next month, that power should be given the directors to allocate a sum up to GO per cent, of the profits of the federation to the members. Fruitgrowers would be credited according to the amount of business done with the federation during the year.* A poll of Auckland growers will be taken later in the year to decide whether the province shall continue to export its fruit under the pooling system. Mr. IST. R. W. Thomas gave an address on the activities of the Institute of Horticulture and said that it was hoped very soon to obtain an agricultural high school in Auckland. A committee was set up as follows to cooperate in the scheme: Messrs. F. Firth, C. M. Spencer and W. J. Rodger (convenor). The following officers were elected: Director for the Auckland Province on the Dominion executive, Mr. W. J. Rodger; delegates to Dominion Conference, Messrs. F. Firth, W. J. Rodger and H. Raltridge (Auckland), Mr. R. Becroft (Whangarei), Mr. C. Ballantine (Hamilton) and Mr. S. W. House (Thames); members of the Auckland Advisory Committee, Messrs. W. J. Rodger (convenor), S. W. House, F. Firth and R. Becroft.