TOMATO PULP FROM ITALY
GARDENERS’ VIEWS ON IMPORTS “The Press’" Special Service AUCKLAND, July 16. New Zealand canners, worried about the sale of overseas jam, are themselves importing food which can be grown in this country, said Mr A. S. Wilcox, Dominion president of the Commercial Gardeners’ Society. Commenting on a statement by Mr H. Is. Roberts, a director of an Auckland firm of jam manufacturers, Mr Wilcox said he was amazed at the statement that uncontrolled imports of jams into the country could put oldestablished firms out of business. Mr Roberts had said the lower prices of sugar, fruit, labour and packaging enabled the imported jams to be sold cheaper than New Zealand jams. Mr Roberts had said jam imports were affecting the canners, yet some canners had for several years been importing Italian tomato pulp or concentrate instead of paying the local tomato growers a reasonable price. Mr Wilcox said that on a recent tour of commercial garden areas in New Zealand he saw large quantities of tomatoes going to waste because the canners could not take them.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27404, 17 July 1954, Page 2
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