BLACK MARKETING

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23970, 10 June 1943, Page 3

BLACK MARKETING

STATEMENT BY MR H. R. SAMPSON “Most people do not understand what is meant by black marketing of apples and pears,” said Mr H. R. Sampson. Canterbury director of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation, to a representative of “The Press” yesterday. “All growers,” said Mr Sampson, “are entitled to sell direct to consumers, provided delivery is taken at the orchard or is made by the grower in the immediate vicinity of the orchard. Delivery at a greater distance may be made by rail or carrier. Although the regulations of 1942 provide that only two cases may be so sold, the Minister of _ Marketing (the Hon. J. G. Barclay) gave a definite assurance to the directors of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation that the former limit of five cases would apply to the current season, “An officer of the Internal Marketing Department who is at present visiting growers in Canterbury has advised them that, under the regulations, they cannot advertise their fruit for sale, but this is not so, because the regulations give certain rights to sell and consequently, to advertise. Consumers are still legally entitled to draw their supplies from the orchard."