HOPS MAY COST N.Z. DOLLARS
FEAR OF MR E. R. NEALE, M.P.
GROWERS CONSIDER PRICE TOO LOW
(From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, August 24. New Zealand may have to pay dollars for hops from the United States, according to Mr E. R. Neale (Opposition. Nelson). Speaking in the Budget debate in the House of Representatives to-day, Mr Neale said that, because the price was not considered payable, some of the biggest growers in the Nelson district were pulling out their crops. He knew of one grower who had pulled out 17 acres.
“If we do not grow enough hops we still have to have them and we shall have to import them from dollar areas,” he added. Such a needless drain on dollar resources could be avoided by a commonsense amendment of the existing price, Mr Neale said, but he feared that the Government would as usual leave it far too late. Several Government members interjected that, even if hops were imported, they would not need to come from dollar areas, but Opposition members disputed this, saying New Zealand’s imports would come from California.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25891, 25 August 1949, Page 4
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