ONION REGULATIONS

Southland Times, Issue 23182, 24 April 1937, Page 18

ONION REGULATIONS

AMENDMENT GAZETTED (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 23. An amendment to the Board of Trade’s onion regulations Gazetted tonight provides that no person shall sell or purchase any first grade, second grade or pickier grade onions, to which these regulations apply, at prices below the respective prices specified a ton, free on board or free on rail, namely:— (a) If sold or purchased before May 1, 1937, for first grade £5 5/-, for second grade £4 5/-, and for pickier grade £3 5/- (sacks extra in each case). (b) If sold or purchased on or after May 1, 1937, for first grade £5 15/-, for second grade £4 15/- and for pickier grade £3 15/- (sacks extra in each case). No person who is not a member of the Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants’ Association shall sell any graded onions grown in one district to any person outside that district, and no person who is not a member of the association shall buy any such onions on behalf of any person outside the district in which the onions were grown. Nothing in this clause shall apply to the sale in any such district of-graded onions by any onion grower, or by public auction to any person outside the district in which such onions were grown. ___________