BOARD OF TRADE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23436, 26 February 1938, Page 11

BOARD OF TRADE

NEW REGULATIONS ISSUED MARKETING OF ONIONS (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 25. The Board of Trade Regulations, 1938, which will come into force tomorrow, will replace all previous regulations under the Board of Trade Act. For the purpose of the regulations New Zealand is divided into three districts as follows: — 1. Roughly, the northern half of the North Island. 2. The other part of the North Island. 3. All the South Island. Onions for sale in New Zealand are to be classified as graded or ungraded, the sacks containing the latter to be marked with the letter X. District complaints committees, set up by the New Zealand Grain, Seeds and Produce Merchants’ Federation, will deal with complaints regarding graded onions. The minimum price for f.a.q. grade onions is £4 a ton, ex port or railway station, whichever is the nearest place where they were grown. No minimum price is fixed in respect to the sale of pickier grade onions. When f.a.q. grade onions are sold by public auction, the upset price must return to the grower £4, less auction charges. The New Zealand Onion Marketing Advisory Committee, composed of representatives of the Government, onion growers and onion wholesalers, is to advise the Minister regarding minimum price variations (if any) and on matters relating to production and marketing. Onion growers and wholesalers register annually and furnish monthly returns, except in December and January.