AN ONION CRISIS.
Merchants and growers in Canterbury are at odda over prices. An association of onion growers is proposed. To the "Lyttelton Times" a merchant remarked that the growers were complaining about the price of onions this year, but they appeared to have forgotten that last year they received very high prices, £10 a ton and up to £14. He did not think that the glowers were concerned last year about the price which the consumers had to pay. In fact, some of them would not accept the good prices that Vere offered, but held out for more and more. All of them did not get more. Some eventually had to accept a good deal less, because onions went to such an exorbitant figure that there was a big decrease in the demand and then prices fell considerably. The high prices ruling last year had resulted in many growers putting down a larger area in onions for the present season. The result was over-production and consequently low prices, and it was difficult to see how the formation of a growers' association was going to alter these facts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 11
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188AN ONION CRISIS. Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 11
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