The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 24 Mar 1927, p. 5

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WV'W' W"' e.------:"""""" ' t - ihursAat1, tt ar-dr, 2, In-l, . T "T'-".", N L., - _ . F o . . 't V r 1 Would Pr. emote Market an manta b ' ForAi,ol Grouminthit . ' Hon. John" B. Martin. Minister of ter of Agriculture. no one could tro Agriculture, intimated in the Legis- into a Toronto fruit store without ' . . - seeing "bruised and broken" Ontario lature yesterday that the Govern apples. Much of theresponsibility ment had under consideration legis- for the situation. said he, lay with lation which would aim to give On- people who drove into the country tario apple-growers a better mar- with :arriels. t,',1i.','ll,t,g,1) "windfa1ls." , . . ' and ece ved uyers y covering the ket than nom existed 1n the City "poor stuff" with a. few layers of of Toronto. good apples. Mr. Martin stated that 60,000 bar- There was no legislation at the rel: of apples were shipped from his present time, he said. to control this County of Norfolk last year, but that "vicious practice," which was in- none of them had gone. to Toronto. croasing yearly, and. reacting seri- Shippers had told him that markets ously on the shipping trade. The for this fruit in Toronto Wore f,,12fo:,Ttyy,',t proposed to deal with moralized." In fact, said the Minis- it, and deal with it Boon.

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