VEGETABLE GROWING
POI,ICY OP GOVERNMENT Difficulties experienced by Pukekohe growers in connection with the scheme for an increased acreage for the production of vegetables were referred to by Mr. M. McDougall at a meeting of the Auckland Council of Primary Production yesterday. The Minister of Agriculture, said Mr. McDougall, was not pleased to see the growers' representatives when they arrived in Wellington. The Government, he declared, had been "antagonistic to merchants handling the produce, but hand in hand with the auctioneers."
Mr. J. M. Smith, speaking for the Department, said that the Government was quite clear on the point that the commercial growers were to maintain the usual areas for thecivil population, and any area grown for the Department was under contract and not for civilian use. The Department had practical Incompleted arrangements for areas at Kaikohe. Whangarei, Mangere. Thames, Rotorua, Ruakura and Tauranga.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 3
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