HONEY MARKETING.
LARGER EXPORTS URGED. - APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph.—Special Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday. A request that the Government should take over the marketing, of New Zealand honey was made recently by a deputation claiming to represent the Dominion Beekeepers' Association, which waited on the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, and the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash. The deputation, which was introduced by Mr. J. O'Brien, M.P. for Westland, comprised Miss M. A. Shepherd, of Rangiora, and Mrs. C. Dempster, of Kaiapoi. In a statement to-day the members of the deputation said they had asked the Government to take over the marketing of all New Zealand honey. The deputation claimed that although the Dominion output was normally 1200 tons, the present arrangements for marketing involved an export of only | 50 ° ton s. The local market was not i sufficiently large to absorb the balance. Mr. Lee Martin said he would give consi eration to the representations in Minister of who • a i ßo told the depntath.c Government could cli, anything to. assist, the industry the
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 22
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