<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6288954f-e6de-4ad5-ab25-403efb3803e4/DA25D952-A2AB-4B28-A4E9-B10112AF4548/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05.htm" href="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05.htm"><P align="center"><DIV><FONT size="3" face="MS%20Sans%20Serif"><B>Brumby listens, but no quick solutions expected</B> </FONT></DIV> <FONT size="2" face="MS%20Sans%20Serif"> Written by <B>SALLY EVANS</B>.</FONT> </P><P>KING Valley Vignerons are continuing to lobby for State Government support in the fight to save their floundering industry.</p> <P>John Brown from Brown Brothers Milawa Vineyard joined Regional Development Victoria chief executive officer, Dan O’Brien, in meeting with state Regional and Rural Development Minister, John Brumby, while he was in Wangaratta last week.</p> <P>Mr Brown, also a member of Regional Development Victoria, hoped the meeting would secure further financial assistance for growers hit with hard times.</p> <P>"<B>We are asking for some assistance for grape growers who find themselves in difficult circumstances,</B>" he said.</p> <P>"<B>Some growers are hanging in there by a thread with the depression of grape prices and then the drought, frosts and fires.</B>"</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DA25D952-A2AB-4B28-A4E9-B10112AF4548/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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