OFFICIAL ADVICE TO COMMERCIAL GARDENERS
“MEET PUBLIC DEMAND’
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 16. It would be folly to refrain from recommending to the growers that they should grow quantities of vege-' tables more in keeping with the public demand and reduce their over-all production. This conclusion was reported in the annual report of the Dominion Council of Commercial Gardeners Limited, presented at today s annual conference. The report added that “this somewhat drastic step" was discussed in November with the Minister of Industries and Commerce, who concurred with the view that it was a logical as well as an economic expedient to take this course if the industry wore over-pro-ducing. The statement had been duly circulated to all growers along these lines.
The year itself had been one of high production and relatively low price yields, the report said. The vegetablegrowing industry had been one of the relatively few that had reached the stage where production would overtake demand. This position could be traced to the war period, when the production capacity of the industry was raised to a very high level in order to supply the armed forces in the South Pacific.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22666, 17 June 1948, Page 6
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