STATE CONTROL OPPOSED
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Beekeepers Fear Decreased Demand
(By Telegraph-
GREYMOUTH, Last Night. A representative ' meeting of Westland beekeepers to-night adopted resolutions opposing State control and marketing of the industry, with centralised packing and licensing of packers, because it was expected to increase- costs, with inferiority in the standard of blending, which would result in decreased oonsumption. There was a decision also demanding that full details of the proposede legislation bhould be submitted to a referendum of all producers The meeting also passed a resolution stating that the export market was being subjected to distributive restrictions under the Honey Control Board, by the removal of which exporters would obtain better returns and the surplus local production could be . absorbed profitably by the export market.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 26, 23 October 1937, Page 6
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