DUNEDIN NORTH SEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 18, 21 July 1943, Page 3

DUNEDIN NORTH SEAT

p. A. ' DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr A. L. S. Cassie was selected yesterday as the National Party candidate for Dunedin North. Mr. Cassie is in business as an engineers' merchant. He was for a period engineer in charge of constructional work for the Colonial Sugar Company, Auckland. He served in the Great War on hospital and troop ships.

the lowest ceiling is in December, January, and February at 13s per cwt (2£d per lb), and the highest In August, September, and October at 21s per cwt (3^d per lb). For spring cabbages and pointed varieties the July ceiling is 22s per cwt <4d per lb), and in August, September, and October it is 275, per cwt <4§ d per lb ) In all other months the ceilings for these varieties are the same as for drumheads and savoys.

"To help vegetable growers in planning their production is the main purpose of fixing wholesale ceiling prices to cover every month oi! the yeai\ says a statement by the Price Tribunal.' "The maximum prices now established have been arrived at after prolonged and thorough investigation of production and marketing conditions. Full attention has been given to normal seasonal trends of prices. At a conference of growers and Government officials last month vegetable prices were very fully discussed. The facts then brought forward have been taken into consideration in drawing up the new price order. Knowing in advance what the prices will be is likely to be of assistance to retailers as well as growers. Some of the losses incurred in the past in buying against unpredictable market fluctuations should now be avoidable. "Carrots, parsnips, swedes, and cabbages are four of the six basic vegetables taken into acc#unt in the wartime prices index, the other two being potatoes and onions, whose prices are controlled by other price orders. Some of the non-basic vegetables—pumpkins, kumeras, turnips, and silver beet —are covered by current price orders, which will be revised at the end of the month. Besides these, still further non-basic vegetables will be covered by price order as soon as possible after the completion of discussions with growers' representatives. "Grading standards are essential to the control of vegetable prices, so that minimum requirements of conditions, size, and so on, are met by all concerned, growers, merchants, and retailers. As discussions on grading are not yet completed, it is proposed to amend the price order when standards are agreed upon to provide for a maximum wholesale and retail price for second grade vegetables. The present order merely fixes an overall maximum.

"Special provision is made for a slightly- increased retail price to meet high transport costs to certain isolated towns which receive most of their vegetables from a distance. These increases will apply only where application is made to the Price Tribunal and permission is granted."