HONEY MARKETING

Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 2

HONEY MARKETING

STATE ASSUMING CONTROL MEETING THE GENERAL WISH [Per United Phem Assocutow.J AUCKLAND, February 14. Mr Allace Nelson, chairman of direct tors of New Zealand Honey Limited, stated this morning that arrangement! had been made by the Government for the Internal Marketing Department to process, pack, and distribute honey fop export and the local markets in accord with the general wish of producers, a* expressed in the resolutions passed bj{ the beekeeping centres throughout the Dominion. Honey Limited was- formed to fill the breach created by the collapse of the late Honey Producers’ Association five years ago. Ponding . consideration by the Government of the proposal for th* application of the principle vi marketing control in the disposal of produce, the consensus of opinion among the company shareholders was that the department could more effectively protect the interests of the honey producers than any voluntary Co-operative selling agency, and the decision of the Government to delegate the powers to its own. department would be welcomed by the industry as a whole. The Government had agreed to tak* over the fixed assets of the company* and the business will in future bo carried on by the department. As a result of the sale to the Government, the voluntary liquidation of the ’company automatically follows. The directors strongly advise all producers to utilise the facilities provided by the department, and to send forward the whole crop. ' . “ The industry is entering a new era, and the change will prove for the better in the interests of both producers and consumers,” Mr Nelson concluded. = ” . I""