MARKETING OF PIP FRUITS
Growers Seek Guaranteed Price By Telegraph—Press Association. NELSON, March 14. Mr. J. Dicker, vice-president of the Fruit-growers’ Federation, Ltd., presided over a fully representative meeting of Nelson fruit-growers, the numbei present being in excess of 160 Messrs. Skinner. M.P., H. E. Stephens (chairman of the Fruit Board), A. Osborne (general manager of the Fruitgrowers’ Federation) and officers of the Horticultural Division of the Department of Agriculture were in attendance. Messrs. Dicker and Stephens addressed the meeting, advising gv&wers of the result of negotiations with the Minister of Marketing, Mr. Nash. The following motion was moved by Mr. Dicker and seconded by Mr. C. P. Stannard: “That this meeting recommend the Internal Marketing Division to take over the marketing of pip fruits for 1940 on a guaranteed price scheme similar to that operating in the dairy industry, the price to be based on the same method as adopted at present in the dairy industry.” The voting, which was limited to bona fide fruit-growers, resulted:— For, 100; against, 19.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 145, 15 March 1939, Page 7
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171MARKETING OF PIP FRUITS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 145, 15 March 1939, Page 7
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