FRUIT AND HONEY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 146, 17 December 1924, Page 6

FRUIT AND HONEY

EXPORT CONTROL CARRIED

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The official count of the proposals to bring the export control clauses of the Fruit Control Act and the Honey Export Control Act into force has been completed, and in both instances a lar-re majority of the producers has decided in favour.

Ihe proposal to impose a control over fruit intended for local consumption has, however, been substantially defeated, in each of the provincial districts except. Nelson and Marlborough lhe voting on the fruit export control issue resulted:— For. Against. 191 40 The following are the details of tlie votes cast in the provincial districts on the proposal that fruit intended for local consumption should be subject to control:— . , , , For. Against. Auckland 92 °4 0 7 Taranaki 1 4 Hawkes Bay 54 g? ' Wellington ; ".■.";"; 15 8 7 Marlborough „ 17 13 *els°n, .'.'.'.'.' 279 147 I • Canterbury 21 214 OtaS<> .'.'"".' 32 '123 The honey producers, by a majority of <253 votes to 9, voted in supr O rt of the principle of controlling the export of honey. The export provisions of the Fruit and Honey Control Acts having been learned, they will be brought into operation on a date to he specified by proclamation by the Governor-General. I JNelson and Marlborough having approved of the -control of fruit intended lor local consumption, a proclamation will be issued declaring the date on which this part of the Fruit Control Act will be in operation with respect to frmt produced in cadi of those provincial districts.