PRICE OF VEGETABLES
Sir,—All vegetable prices in the statement issued by the Minister in charge of stabilisation refer to the North Island. The 1940-41-42 prices mentioned by Mr Sullivan do not indicate that they were payable prices to the grower. Growers should not be victimised because retailers were exceeding 300 per cent, over wholesale prices. Prominent growers contend that the indexed prices for cabbages are absolutely unpayable, and defy the Minister to produce a schedule of costs showing that they will be payable. We deny that conditions for the production of cabbage are more favourable in the South Island. Spring cabbage, August-September, can be produced only on selected hillside slopes, which entails three times the labour required for October-November production. The position is so serious that growers are now ploughing in thousands of plants because of the blundering interference of the Government in fixing prices which definitely do not cover costs of production.—Yours, etc., C. E. POPE, Past President, Dominion Council, Tomato, Berry Fruit, and Produce Growers.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23966, 5 June 1943, Page 6
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