FIXATION OF BARLEY PRICES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 December 1936, Page 6

FIXATION OF BARLEY PRICES

ACCORDING TO QUALITY (United Press Association) INVERCARGILL, 19th December. The opinion that in the fixation of barley prices recently announced the Government should not have set different prices for different districts and that quality should have been the only factor taken into account, was expressed at a meeting yesterday of the Southland provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, and the following resolution was carried:

“That this executive appreciates the Minister’s efforts to assist barley growers, but regrets that he did not fix a price according to quality and not districts. In the opinion of this executive there is no reason why different prices should rule in different districts. Growers in the Gar?ton district find the price of 4s Gd a bushel too low. Although no definite assurance was given, we are of opinion that the Minister should have consulted growers before fixing prices lower in certain districts than those asked for. The price asked (5s a bushel) was, in the growers’ opinion, the lowest price which would give them a reasonable return.”