PRICE OF FRUIT
GROWERS’ INCREASED COSTS CHALLENGE NOT ACCEPTED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 25. In a statement issued to-day the Fruitgrowers’ Federation says that the failure of the Minister of Finance, Mr W. Nash, to accept the challenge to publish the findings of the special Government committee on production costs in the fruit industry must be accepted by the public as an indication that the fruitgrowers’ case is unanswerable. In previous statements, the federation says, the Minister sheltered behind the Stabilisation Regulations, but how can he reconcile this attitude with the recent pronouncement of the Government that all army labour used for the harvesting of this season’s crop must be paid for at 2s 6d an hour, whereas last year the rate was 2s, the present stabilised award rate for adult male orchard workers? How is the grower to meet the additional cost from his present return, and why talk of stabilisation when the award rate for orchard workers has been increased by 25 per cent, for army labour for the coming harvest season? Where is the consistency?
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25393, 26 November 1943, Page 2
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177PRICE OF FRUIT Otago Daily Times, Issue 25393, 26 November 1943, Page 2
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