MATERIALLY IMPROVED
MARKETING OF ONIONS
OPINION OF COMMITTEE
ANSWER TO CRITICISM
(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day
A meeting of the South Island Onion Marketing Advisory Committee was held in Christ church to-day t-Q further discuss the marketing position in regard to onions. After the meeting, which was fully attended by all members, who included both the president and secretary of the Canterbury Onion Growers' Association, the chairman, Mr. P. B. Tennent, handed to the press the following resolution passed unanimously by the com mil tee: — "This committee deprecates the critical publicity which has 'been given to the onion marketing scheme. While a scheme of this nature, in its inception, must be subject to minor defects which only experience can rectify, the committee wishes to place .on record its opinion that, in the main, the scheme has operated to the advantage of the growers generally, and the Minister of Agriculture has in the honest endeavour materially improved the onion-growing and marketing position." _______
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 15
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