MARKETING OF ONIONS
STATE CONTROL URGED
OPINIONS OF GROWERS [from our own correspondent] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday Resolutions urging that the Government should take control of the marketing of onions, with a minimum fixed price on a sliding scale similar to that operating in the marketing of wheat, and that all importation of onions should be undertaken by the Government, were passed at a meeting of onion growers at Marshland. The meeting was addressed by Mr. C. M. Williams, M.P., who dealt with a planned marketing scheme. He said that if there was a guaranteed price for onions there would have to be some control over production. Any comprehensive scheme for onion marketing would ultimately involve the licensing of growers. That was a very thorny proposition, but it would have to be done.
Mr. D. Goode, president of the Canterbury Onion Grower:;.' Association, said that for the last year or so efforts had been made to improve the marketing of onions, but so far little progress had been made.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22603, 16 December 1936, Page 9
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