Recently the Dominion farmers’ conference expressed the opinion that the Government should place the egg industry on the same footing as the fruit industry as far as financial assistance was concerned. The Minister of Agriculture (Hon. W. Nosworthy) now has replied, pointing out that one of the principal factors governing the granting of a guarantee in the case of Lhe fruit industry was the inability of growers to secure satisfactory advances against their produce in the absence of a guarantee. No trouble in this respect appears to have been experienced by oultrymeii, states the Minister; in ’fact, it is said that advances have been forthcoming in advance of any limit which the Government cou|d reasonably be expected to guarantee, ayable prices had beefi received for three shipments of eggs.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 235, 11 September 1924, Page 3
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