FRUIT GROWING.
CONFEREXCE AT MOTUEKA. By Telegraph—Press Association. Motueka, Thursday. The fruit growers' conference last evening resolved that the Fruit Growers' Association of the Dominion federate and and that the Hawke's Hay executive continue to act as the federation executive. Other resolutions passed were: That the Government again be urged to inaugurate a system of free booking; that in view of the near depletion of suitable wood the Government be asked to plant waste Crown lands by means of prison labor with trees suitable for fruit eases and butter boxes; that the Government be urged to consider the question of restricting instead of enforcing the devastation of forests in connection with land settlement to conserve timber supplies. A motion in favor of Government assistance for cool stores at the centres of production, the association paying interest and sinking funds was carried; also a motion that the Government be urged to rigidly enforce the law re diseased trees not being sent out from nurseries.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 114, 3 November 1911, Page 2
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163FRUIT GROWING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 114, 3 November 1911, Page 2
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