HONEY CONTROL BOARD
PAY-OUT FOR THE SEASON (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 16. The amount of the season’s pay-out was announced by the chairman of the Honey Control Board (Mr J. R. Butland) at a conference of the National Bee Keepers’ Association today. Mr Butland said that although the final accounts had not yet been received the board had decided at a meeting on Tuesday on a further 2-Jd a lb, pro rata, which would bring the 1936 season’s pay-out up to 6Jd. Diming the past year the board was able, aftejl long negotiations and with the help of various organizations, to bring about a reduction in honey freights from 76/- a ton to 10/-. The saving thus effected would become evident during the current season.
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Southland Times, Issue 23228, 17 June 1937, Page 9
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