PIP FRUITS TO BE DEARER IN NEW ZEALAND
(P.A.) HASTINGS, July 11. After asking for an increase in the guaranteed price for pip fruit to 10s a case, the industry had received an offer of an over-all average price of 9s a case for the 1947 season, said Mr A. B. Congdon, Dominion president of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, at the annual provincial conference of the federation in Hastings today. While that price included some subsidies, it was a definite advance, and Mr Congdon thought it would help those growers with light crops. He was pleased they had been able at last to break down the low stabilised price which was fixed by the Government without consultation with the industry. The increase of Is 6d a case, which built the price up to 9s, would come from the consumer.
Mr Congdon added that requests by the stone fruit committee to have selling prices removed had been refused. It seemed they would be the Government policy for another year or two yet.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 July 1947, Page 3
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