MANUFACTURE OF PICKLES

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23801, 21 November 1942, Page 4

MANUFACTURE OF PICKLES

* SUPPLY OF PRODUCE Steps being taken by pickle and sauce manufacturers to secure the produce needed to enable them to meet their heavier commitments were outlined yesterday by the secretary of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association (Mr R. T. Alston). Mr Alston said that commitments for armed forces supplies in the coming year were heavy. Canterbury growers had been acquainted with the position by the Department of Agriculture and were making provision for an increased output of primary produce. For Canterbury and other manufacturers, an appeal had also been made to Marlborough growers to grow more tomatoes, cauliflower, cucumbers, and such, and the Primary Production Council at Blenheim was sponsoring a scheme to increase production there. The council, in co-operation with New Zealand manufacturers, was calling fpr contracts for the growing of quantities of tomatoes from scwt to 100 tons. Besides bottlings. a heavy demand was being made on the canning industry for the production of canned vegetables and vegetable juices. Of the armed forces pickle requirements, Mr Alston said, 80 per cent, had been manufactured in Christchurch, and ■,recent production figures had shown that so far 1,293,600 jars of pickles had been shipped overseas. The commitments Into which manufacturers were entering were, moreover, increasing yearly.