FIRM STAND ON PEA PRICES
(New Zealand Press Association)
BLENHEIM, June 18.
Growers have united in withdrawing pea-growing contracts until the national executive of the Vegetable and Process Growers’ Federation has concluded satisfactory negotiations for improved prices with processing companies.
The chairman of the federation’s process growers’ division (Mr W. C. Wills, of Motueka) said the division had not yet made demands
for a specific price increase. Mr Wills said the division now awaited an approach from processing firms so that prices to growers for peas could be reviewed for the first time in 20 years. The decision to recommend members to withhold their contracts came "only after we had exhausted every other avenue.” Mr Wilis said that processing companies now had an approved price from the Price Tribunal of 51c for a 30oz pack of frozen peas. "Yet the grower receives only an average of 2|c per lb for the same peas from the processing companies.’’
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32637, 19 June 1971, Page 2
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