MAIZE-GROWERS’ CONFERENCE

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 55, 11 July 1938, Page 1

MAIZE-GROWERS’ CONFERENCE

NO AG REEMEINT REACHED HOARD'S PRICE TOO LOW?. .-No arrangement was reached by growers and the Internal Marketing Bbard’s representative at a meeting held hi Gisborne on Friday night to endeavour to arrange a satisfactory l^isis for the- marketing of the new season's maize crops. Representatives of »both the Poverty :Jiay Maize Growers’ Association and the, Ray of Plenty Maize Grow-ers’-Association were present to meet Mr Fraser,’ representing the board. The board’s idea of pnf-e Was. lower than wlmt was'. consi dered^sseu.lia l by growers. The board maintained that a minimum opening price <H| 4s l Jd per bushel, f.0.b., would be <1 compromise between the growers and the poultry and pig producers, but the growers could not see their way t) accept an agreement on\ that basis ' . 4 Growers’ representatives pointed out that the costs of production had gone up, and i the matter was discussed thoroughly, hut without any agreement being reached. Mr Fraser also discussed marketing matters with tlm merchants’ representatives late in tlje afternoon, seeking an assurance th.it arrangements entered into last 'year wore running smoothly. tin a .-statement prior to the meeting the secretary of the Royerty Bay Ivlaize Growers’ Association^'said that the growers hoped to receive a. return if 5s 6d, f.o.b. “It is the hope docar growers’ organisation that farnieis will be satisfied * with this fig>‘i\e, and will not 'hold off the nuirl*et in the lujpe of higher prices,” the secretary’ concluded.