VEGETABLE SUPPLIES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 238, 8 October 1942, Page 3

VEGETABLE SUPPLIES

RESPONSIBILITY OF GROWERS

(P.A.) \\ ELLINGTON, this day. The institution of a programme of vegetable production for the armed forces under the control of the Department of Agriculture, as stated by the Minister, is S, e ". kM,vn to us," stated Mr. L. V. Phillips, secretary of the Dominion Council oi Commercial Gardeners, "and we hope the venture will be successful, but it is on the shoulders of the commercial grower that the responsibilitv rests of supplying the canning factories with their \ast requirements and it is he who provide for the civilian demand. We can only reiterate as a council that the commercial growers of the Dominion acted i?r a /?P se of du( y in informing the hitff v- 0 °/ t -> ew r , Zea . land of the grave possibility of the Dominion's falling down on her commitments for vegetable production. This is a matter which should not become controversial. it is one that should be tackled in a calm, analytical manner, and an endeavour should be made to face the problem and not run away from it. The time for investigation and experiment has passed and all risks mu»t be minimised. The urgency of the matter demands immediate action and we have shown how the best use can be ties - *; of the existing production facili-

| SURVEY BV CONTROLLER j~4 , su '' vo >' , of the country's resources *"s*. potentialities m the production of fooastuns has been completed, stated Mr. , Thomas, l-'ood Controller, who • I'itecl Pukekohe market gardens vester- ' - " y4' c ' likely the Govern- • i.'iem would announce at an early da>e jits proposals on this subject. ! . -^' r - Thomas will discuss with the Minister of Marketing, Mr. Barclay, his con- | elusions on the planting, cultivation and i marketing of vegetables. He commented I that the unfavourable weather of ! month was stated to have set back the ■ u i. y ' c^ ops- , iim! " n,L early potatoes from I tjkekohc. though probably sufficient to i relieve the unsati-lied demand, would not 'Utticip-He'l ''" " e a -"PP'y ilarl been