VITAMIN “C”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22698, 24 July 1948, Page 8

VITAMIN “C”

Shown in M/Gms per 100 Gms. Persimmons 28 Chinese 'G./Berries .. .. 50/60 Passion Fruit .. .. .. 42 Tree Tomatoes 28/35 Tomatoes .. 22 Apples . .. .. .. .. 12 Oranges 40/50 Strawberries 50 These are Australian figures. Local Industry Subsidies Efforts are continually being made by Federated Farmers to have the subsidy payable to tanners removed and thereby give producers export parity prices for hides and skins used in New Zealand. Lately, the Dominion council requested the Government that wherever local industry was subsidised, such subsidy should come from the consolidated fund- The Minister of Finance, Mr. W. Nash, replying said it was a fundamental principle of the Government's price control and stabilisation policies that the prices for primary produce and manufactured goods sold on the local market were based on cost of production and -not on export parity. Where the local price was held below the cost of production, as with butter and bobby calf skins, the difference was made up by subsidy from the consolidated fund, Mr. Nash concluded. Antiques in Demand Buyers of antiques from all parts of the Dominion attended a sale of furniture in Wellington. Four English cane chesterfield suites and a grandfather clock sold for £IOB3 within several minutes. Prices included Dresden figures, £205; a pair of Sheffield candelabra, £110; miniature pieces of Dresden, from £lO to £4l; mahogany twin beds, £56 a pair; a Sheraton sideboard, £75; and Persian rugs, from £2O to £sl each.