REPORT DENIED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 10, 7 October 1943, Page 6

REPORT DENIED

Commercial Gardeners And Contracts

At no time had it been decided by the Dominion Council of the Commercial Gardeners to advise growers not to sign contracts with the Government for the supply of basic vegetables. This was stated in Wellington last night by the headquarters of the council, to whom was referred an Auckland report attributed to Mr. C. R. Reader, secretary of the Auckland Commercial Gardeners’ Society, that the council had decided to advise growers not to sign. The headquarters stated last night that negotiations had been proceeding for nine mouths, but the whole position from the council’s viewpoint was most unsatisfactory. .In some districts growers had signed; in others they had not. On September 30, Ihe national executive (representing the Chinese and European executives) had made certain representations Io the Prime Minister that were subsequently repeated in a six-page memorandum. These representations were still being considered, but at uo time had the council advised growers not to sign. It had placed the position before them, as it saw it. and left the matter there. There was no question while negotiations were proceeding with the Government of advising growers or districts one way or the other.