GROWERS’ INTEREST

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22416, 25 August 1947, Page 4

GROWERS’ INTEREST

CONTRACT PREPARED TOMATOES FOR PULP When prospective tomato growers met to view the terms of the contract offered by a Gisborne enterprise installing plant for tomato pulping, there was not a large attendance, but the convener of the meeting, Mr. D. B. Barry, explained that he had been promised about half of the acreage required for the first season. He realised that several interested persons had been experiencing difficulty in ordering the necessary plants for the coming season. Mr. Barry said, he had been able to make an arrangement with a grower to raise .the particular plants required. Growers were impressed with the fact that there was little time to be lost and the completion of contracts would enable the factory to confirm orders for cans and cases. The terms of the contract, offering the grower £lO per ton at the farm gate, stated a preference for ripe tomatoes of a dwarf variety or any other agreed upon by the purchaser and remain the property of the purchaser. Another clause of interest to growers will be that, at the option of the grower, the purchaser would advance to the grower wages incurred in picking tomatoes, than amount to be deducted from the price payable to the grower. Growers present took contract forms with them and assured Mr. Barry that they would complete them at an early date to enable him to complete arrangements for necessary materials.