HONEY CONTROL BOARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 204, 29 July 1932, Page 3

HONEY CONTROL BOARD.

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 27. Fears that certain interests would bring pressure to bear upon the Government to secure the abolition or curtailment of the powers of the Honey Control Boa.nl were expressed by a deputation from the Beekeepers’ Association, which waited on the Minister of Agriculture to-day. Agreement with the policy being followed by the board was expressed, by speakers, and the Minister gave an assurance that he would watch the interests of the producers. The Minister said he did not think they had reached the stage where they were discussing abolition of the boa'rd. “The department’s reports bear out what you say with regard to your prices,” he said, “but the department suggests that these prices were obtained. by an expensive method.” The Director-General of Agriculture, Dr. C. J. Raikes, said Mr Butland, a member of the hoard, was at present in London and he was going closely into the question of advertising with agents. The Minister said the producers could arrest assured that, as far as lie was concerned, he would do everything to help them retain the goodwill and the trade mark they had established in Great Britain. If the board were functioning satisfactorily for the producers it could not ho as bad as some made out.