ONION SCHEME
PROVES A FAILURE CHRISTCHURCH, May 21. The Government’s scheme for the marketing of onions has proved a failure and the South Island Onion Marketing Advisory Committee, at a lively meeting yesterday decided to recommend that the present grading he abolished in its entirety, and a fair qverage quality grade substituted. The scheme was not acceptable to eithei growers or merchants and the most serious aspect was that soft onions, which usually wore marketed at this time of the year became unsaleable. To relieve the position, the Government announced recently it would purchase a quantity of first, grade onions. hut when buyers called on growers it was found that a very small proportion of onions were graded as first quality. In fact, the Government purchases do not exceed 150 tons. Meanwhile large quantities of soft onions aie left rotting in the paddocks.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1937, Page 4
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143ONION SCHEME Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1937, Page 4
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