FRUIT MARKETING
GROWERS' ATTITUDE
P.A. HASTINGS, This Day. At one of the largest meetings of fruit growers ever held in Hawke's Bay the new scheme by the Government for the handling of fruit for the 1943-44 season was rejected without dissent. On the motion of Mr. F. H. Reid, the meeting decided to urge the Minister of Marketing to withdraw the scheme and resume the State purchase of pip fruit, giving the growers the advantage of the extra money that the Government was prepared to spend on the scheme rejected by the growers. The meeting lasted nearly three hours and was addressed by Mr. Archie Brown, of Nelson, who outlined the wage provisions. - He condemned the" scheme as having nothing in' it for the benefit of the individual grower,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 8 January 1944, Page 6
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129FRUIT MARKETING Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 8 January 1944, Page 6
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