HONEY MARKETING

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 139, 15 June 1939, Page 10

HONEY MARKETING

NEW REGULATIONS

DISPOSING OF CROP

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

HASTINGS, This Day,

Recalling that he submitted certain proposals on marketing procedure at the apiarists' conference last year, the chairman and Government representative of the Honey Control Board (Mr. W. W. Nelson), at the conference of the National Beekeepers' Association yesterday, said he had been supported by honey growers throughout the Dominion in these contentions.

"With the support of the beekeepers behind the proposals the Honey Control Board submitted a report and recommendations to the Government in favour of the immediate application of regulations embodying the procedure agreed to by the producers," he said. "The new regulations came into operation early this season, and although they have not long been in force the results have been up to expectations.

It could hardly be expected that the regulations now in force would dispose of all their marketing problems. The position appeared '- be that many producers made a practice of upplying their local trade with a class of honey easy to sell and sending forward to the Honey Division only that portion of th crop which they fyund difficult to dispose of. ly board,'" said Mr Nelson, "has no wish to see restrictions placed on acceptance by the Department of any sound marketable honey, but-at the same time it would appear that some action may be necessary unless all suppliers to the Department are prepared to voluntarily send forward a much greater portion of better-class honey than they have been doing in the past. Unfortunately many individual producers who sold their honey outside the division have not followed the lead given by the Department in the matter of prices, and their net return will compare very unfavourably with the total payout that will be made by the division for similar grades of high-quality honey Possibly the payout of 6d pro rata by the division is better than many nonsuppliers to th? division anticipated it would be. and this might account for the low prices quoted by private beekeeper packers." The season 1936-37 was the final year in which the Honey Control Board exercised control over the overseas marketing. Accounts for that season were now complete and he had to announce that the payment of 5d pro rata already paid out was the final for the season 1936-37.

A remit that the Government again be approached for a remission of the sugar duty was adopted.