VEGETABLE PRICES
COMMITTEE SET UP
The personnel of the Vegetable Marketing Committee which has been set up as the result of the recent inquiry by the Price Tribunal into the high price of vegetables was announced today by the Minister of Marketing (Mr. Barclay). ,„■.,..'■!■ The committee, who will meet from time to time and make the necessary recommendations to Cabinet through the Minister of Marketing, consists of the following members:— Minister of Marketing (Mr. Barclay), chairman. Mr. B. Roberts, M.P. (deputy chairman). I Mr. A. H., Cockayne, Director-Gen-eral of Agriculture. j Mr. R. P. Fraser, Acting Director of Internal Marketing. Mr. L. Munro, associate member of the Price Tribunal. The committee held a preliminary meeting yesterday, and regular sittings will begin next month.
Semi-official reports of potato crop prospects in the South Island indicate that they are good and that production should be equal to demand. At the moment the potato- is not nearly so much a culinary curiosity as it has been and retail prices are considerably reduced on what they have been.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1942, Page 6
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174VEGETABLE PRICES Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1942, Page 6
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