‘Growers should run own market groups’
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture (Mr Maclntyre) made it clear to berry fruit, vegetable growing, and nursery representatives whom he met in Christchurch yesterday that the Government preferred that they organise their own form of market control rather than have some type of Government organisation do it. Mr Maclntyre agreed that some form of market control was needed and said that this and the importance of quality in their products were the two messages that he wanted to give them. When a member of his audience described how the market for asparagus had slumped in Brisbane because of attempts to market an
inferior New Zealand product, Mr Maclntyre said his suggestion was that the growers should organise themselves. “I do not think that it should be the task of Government to dragoon you,” he said. Mr Maclntyre had informal discussions with growers, in the course of his electioneering programme, at the 12-hectare Berryfields orchard of Mr P. R. Harrow, in Gardiners Road, Harewood, which was established only three years ago. The Minister briefly inspected the orchard where raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, grapes, and boysenberries are being grown.
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