INDUSTRY CRITICISED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 88, 7 August 1942, Page 2

INDUSTRY CRITICISED

HONEY OUTPUT AND DEMAND VIEIWS OF MR NELSON ''The existing' position that allows ! producers and packers' of honey to pursue a "business as usual" policy in the I'aee of the present serious situation is very unlikely to be allowed by the (Government tc/ continue when the honey crop of the coming season i,s ready for market," declared Mr "Wallace Nelson, of Otorohang'a, chairman of the lioney Control Hoard, at the annual conference of the National Beekeepers' Association of New Zealand. He wais dealing with the need of supplies of honey to meet army contra.'ls, overseas eonuivllnienls, and local market requirements. and stressed the need of having the lull possibilities of the new plant utilised in the interests of the industry. Plant, premises and siall' must. Mr Nelson said, be operated at lull capacity 12 months of the year. If the space and plant specially set up for the use of honey suppliers were not utilised to an appreciable' extent, the Internal Marketing Division might be compelled to use it for other purposes if it Avas known that a certaun other product could be handled by the' honey plant Avith only minor alterations to the plant.