GISBORNE MAIZE INTERESTS.
Poverty Bay maize growers have decided to send representatives to Auckland to appear before the Tariff Commission in support of a request for a duty on all maize, it being contended that the free adniission of crushed African grain severely restricted the market for local supplies. Mr. C. Tietjen, chairman of a meeting of maize growers, in referring to the serious decline in the industry, stated that four years ago 50,000 sacks of maize were shipped from Gisborne, whereas the exports last season totalled only 16,000. So far this season only 9000 sacks had been shipped, leaving a carry-over of 10,000. The drastic effect of this diminution on the community could be judged from the fact that the amount spent in wages for sowing and harvesting maize ranged from £3 14s to £4 per acre, the total distributed for labour among Gisborne workers in a good season being from ,£IO,OOO to £12,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 12
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155GISBORNE MAIZE INTERESTS. Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 12
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