Some of the apple growers in the vicinity of The Summit have suffered heavy losses from hail for two seasons in succession. Unfortunately their losses have not been covered by hail insurance and the demands made from time to time on the hail relief funds built up by the growers have been so heavy that these funds have been inadequate to provide any material assistance.

A number of attempts has been made to inaugurate a scheme of hail insurance for the whole of the Granite Belt area, but the proposals put forward by insurance companies have not met with the approval of the requisite majority of growers. Growers in the southern end maintain that they are situated beyond the hail belt, and therefore a recent ballot on the question of a hail relief scheme, which was agreed to, was confined to the growers in the northern half of the district