POTATOES AND ORANGES
EMBARGOES A POLITICAL ISSUE STATEMENT BY AUSTRALIAN TRADE COMMISSIONER “The trouble is that I can’t get my two Governments into the ring together,” remarked Mr R. H. Nesbitt, Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, speaking of the embargoes on potatoes and citrus fruits to members of the Christchurch Stock Exchange in the Chamber of Commerce last evening. Mr Nesbitt stated that the arguments for maintaining an embargo, both on the Australian and the New Zealand side, had been proved groundless. The embargoes had been begun, he said, partly for economic and partly for scientific reasons. But they were now a purely political issue. .The economic reason had proved a myth and the scientific reason had proved a myth. New Zealand’s difficulty was that she was determined to settle trade problems with Great Britain before she began negotiations with any other country. “In the meantime we shall just have to ‘box on’ with spuds and oranges,” Mr Nesbitt concluded.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 10
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