TOMATO GARDENS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 16

TOMATO GARDENS

Provision for Registration AIDS TO DEVELOPMENT Provision for the registration of tomato gardens used for the production of tomatoes for commercial purposes is contained in a Bill which was introduced and read a first time in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Bill also authorises the imposition of a fee for registration to provide money for the development of the tomatogrowing industry. The Bill defines a tomato garden as any land, whether within a glasshouse or not, used for the growing of tomato plants and the production of tomatoes for commercial purposes. Two or more tomato gardens occupied and used by the same occupier shall be deemed to be one tomato garden. Tomato gardens in which there are more than £5O plants on January 1 in any year are required to be registered annually. Fees payable on the registration of tomato gardens are as follow: — Tomato gardens of which no part is within a glasshouse: Where the number of tomato plants does not exceed 2500, 5/-; where the number exceeds 2500 but does not exceed 7000, 10/-; where the number exceeds 7000, £l. Tomato gardens entirely within a glasshouse or glasshouses; Where the area does not exceed 500 square feet, 5/-; where the area exceeds 500 square feet but does not exceed 1500 square feet, 10/-; where the area exceeds 1500 square feet, £l. Tomato gardens partly within a glasshouse or glasshouses: Where the area of the glasshouse or glasshouses does not exceed 500 square feet, and the total number of tomato plants does not exceed 2500, 10/-; where the area of the glasshouse or glasshouses exceeds 500 square feet, or the total number of tomato plants exceeds 2500, but such area does not exceed 1500 square feet and such total does not exceed 7000. 15/-; where the area of the glasshouse or glasshouses exceeds 1000 square feet or the total number of tomato plants exceeds 7000, £l/5/-. All moneys received by way of registration fees are to be paid into the Consolidated Fund, and after deducting the expenses of collection, the balance of the fee is to be paid to the Dominion Council of Tomato Soft Fruit and Produce Growers, Ltd., to be expended by the council for such purposes in furtherance of the Interests of the tomato-growers of New Zealand as the Minister of Agriculture may approve. The Bill confers authority to make regulations for the registration of tomato gardens, and as to the form of accounts to be kept by the council in respect of moneys paid to it under the Act.