Failures In Wholesale Fruit Selling Business
WELLINGTON, May 5. "Most of the firms engaged in the wholesale fruit ahd vegetable business over the past 50 years, have made a failure, ' ' said Mr. Harvey Turner when giving evidbnee before the Price Tribunal today at the hearing on fruit and produce auctioneers ' eommission. "ino fewer than 40 have been in and out "of business in Auckland during my tinle. Pferhaps that is why the Price Control Division calls us brokers. " If the Price Tribunal made any reductioh, He said, then his firm would have to close down and seil out to the Govfernment which he Was confident could not run i't at under 12J to 15 per cent eommission, or reduce the service to prodUberS by selling in bullc sUpplieS: If the last mentioned course ■ were taken, it wOuld eliminate saies to 1 small retailers, hotels, boarding houses and the public. ' Another middleman, a jobber, would be established who wouia buy in bulk and resell. Without this -middl'e tti'ati tli'e NoW Zealatid wholesale j systeih was regarded today by ovei'Seas experts as the most Oconomie in the English-speaking world.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1949, Page 8
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