GUARANTEE FOR FRUIT
"Ignorance of Public Is Astonijhing" GR0WER NOT GETTING 10/6 "The ignorance of the public concerning the. guarantee is astonishing."' declarcd Mr. A. M. Bobertson, at this morniug's session of the Fruit Export Control Board. "The Government has given us 10/6. Charges for packing and hiaterial run' into 8/-, and the costs of growing and picking tho fruit and putting it into the' shed adds another 3/-, making a total of'll/-; and that last 3/- ineludes wages for tho grower and interest on his land. "I would like the public to understand that the gi'ower is not getliug the 10/6- — he is the mediuin through \*hich the worker gets it." -L'hi: confereuce rose l'or lunch at 1 p.m. and was still uroceediiig this afternoon when- Ihe Herald-Tvibuoe went to presA
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 155, 19 July 1937, Page 8
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