THE MARKETING OF HONEY

Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1932, Page 7

THE MARKETING OF HONEY

OPEN COMPETITION FAILURE CONFIDENCE IN EXPORT BOARD. ANNUAL MEETING OF PRODUCERS. NO CARRY-OVER FOR NEXT SEASON By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Reference to the problems of marketing confronting, the honey producers was made by Mr. P. A. Hillary (Tuakau), president, in opening the nineteenth conference of the‘National Beekeepers’ Association of New Zealand, He dealt with the overseas and local markets and spoke of the failure of competitive open marketing, which he said was so serious that beekeepers were almost unanimous in their determination to organise marketing on sound economic lines and to endeavour to stabilise prices at a reasonable payable level. The economic position had improved, said Mr. Hillary. As a result of the shortage of the crop last season next season should open without any carryover and with only enough honey overseas to last until the 1933 crop arrived in England. The following motion by Mr. R. A. Nelson • (Otorohanga) was carried unanimously: “That this conference of honey-producers expresses its complete confidence in the Export Marketing Board and calls upon the board to exercise its full powers provided by the Act.to protect the. overseas market.” A deputation subsequently waited on the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon.. ,C.,E. Macmillan) and placed before him the views of the conference on the marketing question.