VEGETABLE PRICES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21112, 4 June 1943, Page 4

VEGETABLE PRICES

GISBORNE CONTRACTS

MAIN VARIETIES ONLY MEETING OF GROWERS Contract prices the Internal Marketing Department is offering Gisborne vegetable growers were placed -before a meeting of grower:, and intending growers held last night, when Mr. J. D. Kennedy. instructor at Gisborne, occupied the chair. There, was an attendance of more -than -40, of whom 16 were members of the Chinese community. Explanations of the scheme were made by Messrs. R. G. C; Ffitch and A. M. W. Grcig,. who stated that' onlysix vegetables were included in the stabilisation ■ ■ war- prices 1 order. Potatoes and onions would be dealt with through: the, New ZealandcGrain and Produce Merchants'-xFederation when the next ~ crops, were' to be planted, so that the -Internal Market#-, mg Department was Concerned..at' themoment with i only 'foul I ', carrots, parsnips, swedes and cabbage:; —on a contract basis, ’although itnwas expected • that : ceiling prices would be imposed on all-other vegetables; ' _ 1 Prices wore to be on a district basis, one price for a particular vege-i table in the one district; - but-this would vary throughout; thecseasoh andpossibly from district’'to' district, s In. those districts where it? was known:, high yields were ' the usual rule,,'.‘the 1 prices per ■ ton would be lower < than in those districts where thecyieldsdon# the average were dower. *• There would also- be two grades, check, grading being carried rout?; by. the; Department Of Agriculture in the same manner as with fruity • Prices for Growers

Main crop prices offered to the Gisborne growers'last night were. as. follows: Main season carrots-, £'lo. ■per. ton: spring carrots, £29; parsnips, £l2 10s; summer cabbage, £8 10s; winter cabbage, £lO 10s; spring cabbage, £l6. Variations are to be made for other, months’of the season: ’The prices are based on delivery ■ m Gisborne, sacks Included. - Growers'were; told by the Internal Marketing Department’s representatives last night that now they had railway connection:there, seemed mo > reason why they should" not "be able to supply a great part of the North Island with vegetables, .particularly, as the climate and''soil conditions were so suitable. The production of these vegetables-should be 1 profitable now that there- were fixed prices; and: planned production and. distribution. Those’ present.iat the- meeting, der cided to form 1 themselves into} a .lQcah branch of the, Commercial Gardeners Association 'and to mpet again, on 'June 14. Messrs. R, GU Kenton, G.'King, N: Wong', M.’P, Mullooly. and J ; G. Allen were nominated,., as- member s’, of an, advisory-‘committee to be appointed, by the Minister, who. will select,.three.;