HONEY SUPPLIES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 60, 4 December 1937, Page 8 (Supplement)

HONEY SUPPLIES

Further Pay-out Of Ijd.

A Pound

By Telegraph—Press Association

Auckland, December 2.

A further pay-out on 11)37 season honey of TJd. a pound pro rata has been decided on by the New Zealand Honey Control Board, according to an announcement by the chairman, Hr. J. K. Rutland. The present pay-out. whu.a will b e forwarded to suppliers immediately, will bring the total payment to date for the 1937 season’s produce io sd. tt pound, pro rata. At this lime last year progress payments amounted to I’d. n pound. It was staled that further payment's would be made when , (lie year’s business was completed. That the present payment could be made at this date was considered to provide furl her evidence of the progress made on the overseas market. Suppliers were aware of the unfortunate position that had arisen in England through honey offering not being sufficient to meet the board's overseas market requirements. It was particularly unfortunate that supply should bo interrupted at a time when efforts to find a steady and reliable market for the Dominion’s honey had been brought to a stage when highly satisfactory results and a rapidly increasing demand were being obtained. Everything, however, had been and was being done to prevent, as far as possible, any setback to the sale of honey when it was again available to the British public. Pending advice ns to the form that suggested legislation was likely to take, no decision had yet been reached as to the initial pay-out for 1938 honey.