LIME INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1939, Page 3

LIME INDUSTRY

SCOPE OF INVESTIGATION. BY GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The scope of an investigation to be made into the production and distribution of lime in New Zealand was announced yesterday by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Lee Martin, who emphasised the importance of the industry to the farming community. He expressed the hope that the committee which had been set up to conduct the inquiry would receive the co-operation of all concerned. The committee began its investigation yesterday.

The personnel of the committee is as follows: (Chairman: Mr G. A. Holmes, Fields Division. Department of Agriculture. Members: Mr N. E. Dalmer, investigating officer, Department of Industries and Commerce; Mr John Barron, Invercargill, and Mr F. Milne. Auckland, representing the lime companies; and Mr W. Horrobin, Waikanae, representing the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. The committee’s order of reference is as follows: —(1) To investigate the more efficient production of lime and the organisation of the lime industry generally. (2) To recommend more efficient methods of distribution and marketing of lime. (3) To investigate and report on the most efficient and equitable manner in which Government assistance should be directed so that bona fide farmers may receive the maximum benefit therefrom, and to indicate the total estimated liability under any system alternative to that operating al. present. (4) To investigate the prices and quality 'of agricultural limo from different Works. The Minister said the subject was one of national importance, and that it would greatly assist the committee and the Government if all interested parties were to co-opcrate in supplying the fullet possible information. The committee would undertake a comprehensive tour of both islands at an early date with the object of taking evidence and inspecting at firsthand the various components of the industry.