GREYTOWN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 7

GREYTOWN

FRUITGROWING INDUSTRY MEETING OF ORCHARDISTS. ("Times-Age” Special.) Representatives from all the fruitgrowing areas in the Wellington Province met at the residence of Mr W. A. Tate, Greytown. The meeting, which was held under the shade of the trees, was to enable the growers to meet the Government officials who have been appointed to deal with the disposal of the 1940 crop. The officials present were: —-Messrs D. Wilson. M.L.C. (organiser). Benzies (assembly officer), Thorpe (chief inspector); Goodwin (Assistant. Director of Horticulture), Osborne (manager of the Fruitgrowers' Federation), 'and Davy (district instructor). Mr Ben Roberts, M.P. for Wairarapa. was also in attendance. It was pointed out that no fruit under Commercial A grade was to be sold to the public. The department intend to increase the sale of fruit by advertising, selling half case lots to consumers direct through the agency of stationmasters, and dairy factories. The request that the inspection of the fruit be carried out at the growers' grading shed is to be favourably considered. A resolution was carried by the meeting that the Government purchase be a war measure only. Mr Wilson stated that similar resolutions had been carried throughout the country. He felt sure that at the end of the season growers would be quite satisfied. Personal. Mr and Mrs L. Duff and family, of Opotiki, are the guests of Mrs Duff. Main Street.