PRICE TRIBUNAL’S POLICY
COMPLAINT BY FRUITERER (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 22. “The Price Tribunal lias no policy apart from squeezing the retailer and the wholesaler to appease the producer on the one hand and the consumer on the other,” said Mr L. K. Jonkers, president of the New Zealand Federation of Retail Fruiterers and Greengrocers, in his report to the federation’s annual meeting to-day. Mr Jonkers said this impression had been gained after several discussions with the tribunal on price margins. Contrary to expectations, said Mr Jonkers, the lifting last year of price controls on most vegetables had not resulted in a much needed improvement in vegetable packing. The contract system of digging and packing threw the cost of cleaning and grading on the retailer, although the cost, should be borne by the grower, and about CO per cent, of retail turnoverpotatoes. pears, lemons, apples and imported oranges—was still undeT price control and the margins permitted were uneconomic.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 266, 23 August 1949, Page 3
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