April, 1909 



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British Columbia 



A conference of representatives of fruit 

 Igrowers' associations, of boards of trade of 

 fBritish Columbia and of prominent officials 

 [of the C.P.R., was held early in March in 

 f Victoria. Important problems were dis- 

 f cussed and much good resulted. 



A resolution asking the C.P.R. to reduce 

 i the minimum rate for carload rates from 

 i British Columbia to points east on mixed 

 > cars of apples, pears, fresh fruits and veg- 

 ' etables froni 30,000 to 24,000 pounds for 

 ' large cars and to 20,000 pounds for small 

 cars, brought information from J. H. Lani- 

 !gan, of the C.P.R., to the effect that the 



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request in respect to large cars would 

 be granted, but he could not consent 

 to a reduced minimum on the smaller 

 cars. When it was pointed out that small 

 cars make frequent appearances in British 

 Columbia, the C.P.R. officials assured the 

 meeting that efforts would be made to rem- 

 edy this. The resolution passed, minus the 

 reference to small cars. 



A resolution was passed dealing with 

 freight rates. ' The fruit growers want the 

 same rates into Winnipeg as is enjoyed by 

 Ontario, in order to be able to compete on 

 an equality. In the discussion on this reso- 

 lution, Mr. Lanigan said that the real com- 

 petition in Winnipeg was the Washington, 

 not the Ontario fruit, and that the former 

 was driving the others out of the market. 

 This was not because the foreign fruit was 

 better, but because the Washington grow- 

 ers were dumping their second grade fruit 

 into Winnipeg at prices which were too 

 tempting for the dealers. He said also that 

 the Canadian grower is handicapped by the 

 law. He is obliged to pack and grade his 

 fruit in accordance with the requirements 

 of the Fruit Marks Act and that this Act, 

 which was originally adopted to protect the 

 Ontario growers, who do not suffer from 

 American competition, did not apply to Bri- 

 tish Columbia fruit, arriving in Winnipeg 

 in closed packages. Mr. Lanigan read a 

 lawyer's opinion in support of this view of 

 the law. 



Mr. Maxwell Smith, Dominion Fruit In- 

 spector, took exception to Mr. Lanigan's 



view of the law. Whatever might be the 

 case in the northwest, he had successfully 

 conducted several prosecutions of dealers 

 offering American fruit for sale which had 

 not been properly graded. Mr. Smith ad- 

 mitted, however, that there were only two 

 inspectors in the northwest, a wholly insuf- 

 ficient number to inspect the fruit ship- 

 ments properly. 



In the course of an interesting address, 

 Mr. A. J. Alcock, of Penticton, pointed 

 out that the growers' greatest problem is in 

 the matter of distributing and marketing 

 the fruit; last year, the growers sold fruit 

 for three cents a pound and the freight rate 

 to the northwest markets was about three- 



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