GUARANTEE WANTED
PIP FRUIT-MARKETING
NELSON ALMOST UNANIMOUS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON, This Day. Mr. J. Dicker, vice-president of the Fruitgrowers' Federation, Ltd., presided over a fully representative meeting of Nelson fruitgrowers, the number present being in excess of 160. Messrs. C. F. Skinner, M.P., H. E. Stephens (chairman of the Fruit Board), A. Osborne (general manager of the Fruitgrowers' Federation), and officers of the Horticultural Division of the Department of Agriculture were in attendance. Messrs. Dicker and Stephens addressed the meeting, advising growers of the result of negotiations with the Minister of Marketing (the Hon. W. Nash). It was moved by Mr. Dicker and seconded by Mr. C. P. Stannard: "That this meeting recommend the Internal Marketing Division to take over the marketing of pip fruits for 1940 on a guaranteed price scheme similar to that operating in the dairy industry, the price to be based on the same method as adopted at present in the dairy industry." The voting, which was limited to bona fide fruitgrowers, resulted: —For, 100; against, 19.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 10
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172GUARANTEE WANTED Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 10
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