MARKETING DIVISION

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23216, 1 June 1945, Page 4

MARKETING DIVISION

Increased Payment To Honey Suppliers

(N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 31. “Beekeepers who have forwarded their honey production to the Internal Marketing Division during the last two seasons will receive an increased payment of id per lb on supplies,” said the Hon. B. Roberts, Minister- of Marketing to-day. “A fortnight ago I made a special appeal to beekeepers to forward as much honey as possible to the Auckland branch of the Internal Marketing Division in order to meet a special request by Great Britain for 500 tons of honey, and I am advised that increased quantities are coming forward. For this response I thank the beekeepers concerned. “As beekeepers selling direct to the public are obtaining a financial advantage over suppliers to the Division, it has been decided to make a retrospective additional pay-out of a Id on supplies received by the Divison during the 1943-44 and 1944-45 seasons. As this pay-out will be met by the accumulated credit balance in the Division’s honey account, it will mean neither a subsidy to producers nor an increase in the consumer price of honey.”