Dominion’s Market Gardens
[Special to "TTonnern- stfivocat?.”] WELLINGTON, This Day. “Tomato, soft fruit and produce growers play a tremendous part in maintaining the health of the community,” said the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, at the opening of the annual conference of the Dominion Council of the New Zealand Tomato, Berry, Fruit and Produce Growers, over which Mr C. E. Pope, of Christchurch, presided. The Minister said that in the Dominion there were 5871 acres of market gardens, comprising approximately 1000 holdings. The value of the crops produced was about £1,000,000, and transport costs on the railways amounted to about £50,000. Those figures gave some indication of the importance of the industry. “I, as Minister of Agriculture, and my officers,” said the Minister, “are vitally concerned in the industry, and we have tried as far as we have been able to render service to the industry. I know some people have an idea that we have not done all we should have done, but it is not because we have not been desirous of doing that, but because of the difficulties and complications associated with your industry.”
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Northern Advocate, 9 July 1938, Page 9
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