TOMATO PULP IMPORTS
N.Z. MANUFACTURERS DEFENDED “The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, July 20. New Zealand manufacturers have imported tomato pulp only when local growers have failed, because of bad weather, to fulfil their contracts, according to Mr J. R. Don, secretary of the Auckland Manufacturers’ Association. Mr Don replied to a statement by the Dominion president of the Commercial Gardeners’ Association, Mr A. S. Wilcox, that New Zealand canners, who were worried about the sale of overseas jam, were themselves importing food that could be grown in this country. He said manufacturers bought record quantities of tomatoes from local growers last year and obtained their full requirements from them. “Mr Wilcox is perfectly well aware that the manufacturers try each year to buy all the tomatoes they can from the local growers,” said Mr Don. “Importations are still subject to strict licensing, so that there is no possibility of any importations being made to the detriment of the local growers.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27407, 21 July 1954, Page 8
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