FIXATION OF BARLEY PRICES
' FARMERS' UNION CRITICISMS DIFFERENT VALUES IN DIFFERENT DISTRICTS [Per United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, December 18. Tbo opinion that in the lixation of barley prices recently announced the Government should not have set different prices for different districts and ! that quality should hare been tho only factor taken into account was expressed ■at to-day’s meeting of tho Southland ' Provincial Executive of tho New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Tho following • resolution was carried:— j “ This executive appreciates the Minister’s efforts to assist the barley growers, but regrets that ho did not fix the price according to quality and not according to districts. _ In the opinion of this executive there is no reason why different prices should rule in different districts. Growers in the Garston district find the price of 4s 6d a bushel too ; low. Although no definite assurance 1 was given, we are, of the opinion that the Minister should have consulted the I growers before fixing prices lower in certain districts than those asked for. The price asked (os a bushel) was, in the growers’ opinion, the lowest price which would give them a reasonable ret urn.
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Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 14
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190FIXATION OF BARLEY PRICES Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 14
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