FRUIT-GROWERS MEET

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1014, 3 July 1930, Page 10

FRUIT-GROWERS MEET

ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR GENERAL CONFERENCE IN WELLINGTON Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The annual conference of the Fruitgrowers’ Federation opened today. The president, Mr. T. C. Brash, dealt with tlie excellent results of the work being carried on by the Fruit Export Board, the growth of the industry and the improvement in handling and marketing. An optimistic note in regard to the future of the industry in New Zealand was struck by the Governor-Gen-eral. Ilis Excellency referred to some of the problems confronting fruit growers, but pointed out that there were other factors which should inspire in New Zealand fruit-growers considerable confidence. Incidentally, he urged the growers to cultivate optimism with the same zeal that they cultivated fruit. He also stressed the importance of the maintenance of a uniform standard of quality and soundness in export fruit. He warmly congratulated New Zealand growers on having achieved this season a record fruit export of 1,334.600 cases of hard fruit, of which 1.275,000 consisted of apples, and on having obtained for produce unlike many other agricultural producers in this country an average' price a case which should leave the growers an appreciable margin of profit without any drain upon the national finances in implementing the Government gross