THE AGE OF CONTROL

Shannon News, 13 January 1925, Page 1

THE AGE OF CONTROL

FRUIT AND HONEY. This is certainly the age of control! Following the lead of the Meat Producers’ and dairy farmers, the fruit growers and honey producers of New Zealand have now adopted similar schemes of controlling the export of their produce. The fruit growers accepted the Fruit Export Control Act passed last session by a large majojrity, while the optional local and provincial Control scheme was universally turned down. The result of the official count of votes recorded as announced by the assistant chief electoral officer (Mr G. G. Hodgkins), was as follows: — For the proposal 191 Against 40 Majority for 151 No. of voters eligible . . 291 The result of the voting on the question of provincial control, for the adoption of which a poll of 60 per cent, of eligible voters was required, was:—

Total 2717 1630 511 1087 4 Ijess than 60 per cent of the eligible growers recorded their votes. Of the Nelson voters, 72 per cent, recorded their votes. It will be seen that the proposal was negatived in all the provinces. Nelson went closest to securing the required quota. The honey producers of New Zealand, by 253 votes to 9 adopted that the Honey Export Control Act, passed last session, be brought into operation.

On roll. Quota required s* o fo CG i 3 Informa Auckland 803 481 92 407 3 Taranaki 11 ' r 7 1 4 — Hawke’s Bay 373 224 54 92 — Wellington 151 91 15 87 — Marlborough 72 44 17 13 Nelson 590 353 279 147 1 Canterbury Otago and 356 214 21 214 123 Southland 361 216 32