No peaches tor Fiji?
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SUVA, June 1
The Government of Fiji might be asked to ban the import of “non-essential” food and other goods, said ' the Minister for Commerce and Industry (Mr Mohammed Khan) at a news con- I ference.
Mr Khan was answering a question about what the Government proposed to do about the 12J per cent increase in shipping freight which the Union Steam Ship Company announced earlier this week. Mr Khan said he was “personally not prepared to see that the whole of this is passed on to the consumer.
“I am seriously considering ways and means —which I will recommend to the Cabinet—to find a firmer method of controlling prices,” he said.
He would do this even if it meant that people in Fiji might have to “forgo some goods which are not really essential.”
For example, the people of Fiji had “lived for hundreds of years without tinned pears or peaches.” He believed that they could do so again, as well as doing without other “non-essential” goods. Mr Khan did not elaborate or say what other goods might be regarded as “non-essential.”
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33241, 2 June 1973, Page 2
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