Cutting Out The Jobber

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6170, 10 January 1922, Page 4

Cutting Out The Jobber

Another success has attended the private co-operative enterprise of producers. Arrangements have now been made by Mr li. A. Spinley (says the Herald’s Loudon Correspondent) ( on behalf of the New Zealaud Honey Producers' Association to dispose of the Dominion honey on a basis which will eliminate the profits of the jobpackers It will mean that the producers will obtain Is a pound for ilieir lioncy, as against the present price of 7£d, and the British public will not bo asked to pay any more than they are at present paying. Special depots aud packing arrangements will be installed. Mr Spinley found his task easy when he met the merchants, amongst whom he speedily met a firm eager to undertake the sale on a commission basis of the whole of tho Dominion’s honey. The Association blends its own honey aud markets it as a New Zealand product. This is in contradistinction to the use to which New Zealaud batter is put at Home, for tho butter is as f. e qucntly used for blending with inferior brands, or sold as *■ Welsh roll," as it is marketed unadulterated under its own name. It is largely a matter for conjecture, but the thought obtrudes itself that had all our producp, meat included, a free and unadulterated issue to the British markets under its own name, the present crisis in prices would have been considerably minimised. Instead the Home dealers have juggled to their own advantage with all our products, and what we fondly used to alludo to as a market is merely a dump, where their quality is often entirely disguised before they are redistributed at prices, which, if the farmer obtained his fair proportion of them, would remove half New Zealand’s financial dillicuiti* s. ,