Attention New Zealand Pipfruit Growers The Commodity Levies (Pipfruit) Order 1996 The levy rate for the levy year ended 31 October 1998 is 1.5 cents per tray carton equivalent (tce) of pipfruit, plus G.S.T. This levy rate was passed at PGNZI's annual general meeting on Wednesday, 10 September 1997. A tce equals 18.8 kg of fruit. There is a minimum levy payable of $150.00 plus G.S.T. and a maximum levy payable of $2,000.00 plus G.S.T. The levy is payable by pipfruit growers who produced 1000 tces or more of apples and/or European pears in the 199697 season. Invoices will be sent to pipfruit growers in February 1998 for this commodity levy charge. For further information please contact Karin Mueller, Pipfruit Growers New Zealand Incorporated, P.O. Box 2175, Wellington. Telephone: (04) 472 4730. Facsimile: (04) 494 9989.