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<blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 11555" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>And one last bit of context. While the HMA was primarily charged with exporting NZ's honey (they were the only ones allowed to do it), it also sold on the local market. </p><p></p><p>Remember, though, that packers (and the more common producer/packers) had to pay a Seals Levy on the honey they sold. The HMA (who collected this levy!) did not have to pay it, leading to accusations of unfair competition on the local market.</p><p></p><p>The HMA argued they needed the local market to balance off the exports, and as a way of disposing of darker honeys (mixing them with clover to make darker blends that consumers - esp North Island - liked). </p><p></p><p>And in 1968, I think it was, the HMA bought three major packing operations in the South Island: David Penrose's outfit (Hornby), the Woods' brothers outfit (Rangiora) and Dick Holland's honey plant (Pleasant Point). As well as the equipment, the HMA bought the honey stocks, and the future contracts. And this at a time when there was a disasterously small crop, not many stocks available, and the claims of unfair competition on the local market, and retaining sole access to the export market - it didn't sit well in the industry. And it set the scene for the intervention of this 1972 Caucus Committee report that led, nearly a decade later, to the dismantling of the HMA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NickWallingford, post: 11555, member: 44"] And one last bit of context. While the HMA was primarily charged with exporting NZ's honey (they were the only ones allowed to do it), it also sold on the local market. Remember, though, that packers (and the more common producer/packers) had to pay a Seals Levy on the honey they sold. The HMA (who collected this levy!) did not have to pay it, leading to accusations of unfair competition on the local market. The HMA argued they needed the local market to balance off the exports, and as a way of disposing of darker honeys (mixing them with clover to make darker blends that consumers - esp North Island - liked). And in 1968, I think it was, the HMA bought three major packing operations in the South Island: David Penrose's outfit (Hornby), the Woods' brothers outfit (Rangiora) and Dick Holland's honey plant (Pleasant Point). As well as the equipment, the HMA bought the honey stocks, and the future contracts. And this at a time when there was a disasterously small crop, not many stocks available, and the claims of unfair competition on the local market, and retaining sole access to the export market - it didn't sit well in the industry. And it set the scene for the intervention of this 1972 Caucus Committee report that led, nearly a decade later, to the dismantling of the HMA. [/QUOTE]
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