FRUIT EXPORT TRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1001, 18 June 1930, Page 13

FRUIT EXPORT TRADE

BIG INCREASE SINCE 1921 AUCKLAND CONFERENCE The remarkable development of trading operations of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation. was indicated by the Dominion president, Mr. T. C. Brash, addressing the Auckland Provincial Conference yesterday. The turnover had increased from £2,000 in 1921 to £120,000 in 1929. and the amount was expected to reach £ 130,000 this year, he said. In the past season 1,300,000 cases of fruit had been exported from the Dominion. Mr. Brash announced he did not know whether freights would L>e reduced this year, but he assured delegates that there would not be an increase The conference supported suggestions that the fruit -tly regulations regarding infested districts outside the Dominion should be enforced, and that the clause in the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act. allowing the proportion of live per cent, codlin affected fruit t<* be sold in the Auckland Province, should be repealed. Support was also given to the following remit from the lluapai Fruitgrowers’ Association:—"That in view of the great importance of the work at the East Mailing Research Station in standardising root stocks, the executive of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation be requested to co-operate with the Horticultural Division ami the New Zealand Horticultural Trades’ Association in obtaining an adequate supply of the East Mallins standardised stocks for New Zealand and that the Horticultural Division be urged to carry on further research intc this and other questions affecting the fruitgrowing industry, in co-operatior with the Cawthron Institute and other New Zealand institutions interested and in co-ordination with the Imperial bureau of fruit production ;»1 East Mailing." BEST ROOT STOCKS Instructions weiv given to delegateto the Dominion Conference to support efforts to secure complete research into the question of the best root stock: l’or commercial fruit. A remit was passed approving the principles of the Fruit Nomenclature Committee, set up under the auspice: ol’ the Institute of Horticulture, am recommending that full support shoulc be given to the committee’s work. The following were appointed dele gates to the Dominion Conference o the federation, to be held at Wellingtoi on July 2:—Whangarei district, Mr A. L. Becroft (Port Albert); Haxniltoi district. Mr. C. Ballantyne (Te Khu wliata): Thames and East Coast dis tricts, Mr. S. AY. House (Mangere) Auckland Central district, Messrs. F Firth (Oratia), H. S. Izard fHender son), J. S. Triggs (Huapai). Th Auckland director of the federation Mr. Rodgers, will attend the confer ence ex officio.