NEW MAIZE PRICES
ON A SLIDING' SCALE ALLOWANCE FOR SHRINKAGE Maize-growers, are assured oi' a higher miniinum price' lor their .maize than that which they secured last season, and they will have the.-addi-tional advantage .of' being paid on a sliding scale, the rates rising as the season advances in order to compensate them ter losses in shrinkage. This was revealed on Wednesday night at a meeting of the committee of the Poverty Bay Maize-Growers’ Association with Mr. Thomas, of the Internal Marketing Department, when the prospective minimum price for the coming season was discussed. The growers were told that .an official announcement of the minimum rate should be mauls shortly. In the meantime, they received a definite assurance that they would be on a better basis than last year, when practically the whole of the Gisborne crop was sold at the .minimum price, which was then os a bushel, t.o.b. Gisborne, without any increment Icr the maize that was sold after shrinkage losses had been sustained, .
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 201, 30 June 1939, Page 4
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166NEW MAIZE PRICES Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 201, 30 June 1939, Page 4
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