FIXED CONTRACTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 118, 21 May 1943, Page 3

FIXED CONTRACTS

GROWING OF VEGETABLES NEW SYSTEM INTRODUCED (P.A.) Wellington, May 20. The Government has advised producers, wholesalers, and retailers that it has decided to adopt the contract system of growing vegetables, the objective being to obtain price stability. There have also been introduced delined grading standards for vegetables and their retail sale, according to grade. It is realised now that the system will incidentally affect the operations of produce auctioneers, insofar as the auctioning method of selling will be virtually eliminated in connection with the sale of vegetables, and Government representatives have asked the auctioneers in the mairt centres to iorm a unified distributing system so that individual firms will in effect act as one co-ordinated receiving and distributing unit for handling vegetables during tne emergency period. The system will mean that a grower will agree to grow a certain area of basic vegetables, such as potatoes, onions, carrots, parsnips, swedes, and cabbage and tihe grower will receive a fixed contract price irrespective of the market position. Retailers have been advised that basicvegetable are to be subject to price orders, and all basic vegetables are to be sold by weight, which is a major departure in the case of cabbages.