HONEY MARKETING
RETENTION OF PRESENT SYSTEM SOUTH AUCKLAND BEEKEEPERS’ DECISION (PA.) HAMILTON, Nov. 17. Ey arf overwhelming majority a meeting of the South Auckland branch of the National Beekeepers’ Association in Hamilton to-day carried a resolution favouring the retention of the existing honey marketing regulations for the. coming season.
Mr A. ■H. Honeyfield, * manager of the Auckland branch of the Internal Marketing Department, asked the members to give him an expression of opinion whether the regulations, under which the department took 70 per cent, of the producers' honey and allowed them to dispose of the balance, should be continued or not. The regulations, he said, would lapse on November 30.
The position of the Honey Marketing Division, he added, was so sound that it would withstand any economic gale that might blow. The department had secured a premium over all other honeys from the British Government and had increased the pay-out to producers to 7|d per lb. It had built up reserves valued at £32.015. All its assets were liquid. If the regulations Were not continued and the supply to the department was made voluntary, it was doubtful if sufficient honey would come forward to warrant keeping the Auckland factory open. The overhead expenses would go on and would be charged to the reserve account now standing to the credit of the industry. A return to the voluntary system would mean the beginning of the end, said Mr Honeyfield. If amendments were introduced they would take months to incorporate into the regulations, and this would be too late for the coming season.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25386, 18 November 1943, Page 6
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