MIDDLEMAN'S PROFIT
MARKET PRICE FOR MAIZE GROWER ATTACKS SYSTEM "What your Department ought to do is to attack the method of distribution," said Mr H. C. McCready, addressing Mr R. G. Ffitch of the Internal Marketing Division, at the conference of maize growers last Thursday. "You would soon get down to tin tacks if you rooted out some of the chaps who get a rake off. Under the present system there's a cut for all hand's and the cook." Why should the merchants, and "the brokers get 5 per cent here, 10 -jpcr cent there, he asked. It 011% .3iic;mt chasing the price back to the producer and it created the absurd of maize selling at 10>/(> at Rotorua and ;">/«* in Whakatane. At Kerepeehi in the Thames Valley lie •iunderstood it had sold, for as much -as 12/u',, whilst up Xorlh they didn't know what maize looked like. It was only lack of organisation that stopped the Government from doing something about it and. it was time it was wakened up to the real ■facts.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 17, 22 October 1943, Page 5
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175MIDDLEMAN'S PROFIT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 17, 22 October 1943, Page 5
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