FRUIT FOR EXPORT
HAWKE’S BAY DECISION. [per press association.] HASTINGS, November 20. With only one dissentient, about 60 Hawke’s Bay fruitgrowers decided, at a general meeting on Saturday night, to agree to the offer of the Minister for Marketing (Mr Nash) to purchase 1,000,000 cases of exportable quality fruit, at 7/- f.0.b., provided its export was not going to embarrass cool stores unduly, or the requirements of local market, sales, that, charges on cool storage for export be on a parity with the average cool storage charge on export fruit for the last five years, and that the Minister provide facilities whereby a cash advance of 5/- a case could be made to growers to finance the portion'of crops for the local market. I
It was pointed out that the door was still open for negotiations. Hawke’s Bay representatives of the industry on growers’ organisations which have met the Minister, said that they were convinced, that in a short time some scheme would be evolved which would' enable growers to carry on. Representatives of the industry were not ou,t to “fleece” the Government, but they were not going to agree to anything unless it would give growers a reasonable standard of liv- 1 ing.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 November 1939, Page 4
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