PAY-OUT ON HONEY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 60, 3 December 1937, Page 7

PAY-OUT ON HONEY

— Press Association.)

Further lld Annpunced BOARD'S DECISION

(By Telegraph

AHCKLAND, Last Night. A further payout on the 1937 seasoa i honey of 14d per pound pro rata had been decided by the New Zealand Honly Control Board accofding to an announcement by the chairiuan, Mr. .T. R. Butland. The present payout, which will be forwarded to suppliers immediately, will bring the total payment to iate for the 1937 season's produce to 5d per pound pro rata. At this time last rear progress payments amounted to 3d per pound. It was stated that furthef . payments would be made when the year's business was completed. • That" the present payment could be made at this date was considered to provide further evidcnce of the progress made on the overseas . market. Suppliers were awaro of the unfortUnate position that had arisen in England through the honey offering not being sufficient to meet the Board's overseas market requirements. It was particularly unfortunate that the supply should be interrupted at a time • when efforts to-find a steady and reliable imarket for^the Dominion 's honey had been brought to a stage when highly satisfactory rcsults and a rapidlyincreasing demaud were being obtained. Everything, however, had been and was being done to prevent as far as possible any set-back to the sale of honey wholi it was again availablo to the British publi'c. Pending advice as to the form that the suggested legislation wras likely to take, no decision had yet been Teached M to the initial oavout for 1938 honey, I