Bananas
Sir,—An inter-Govemmental committee has been studying the Government agreement with Fruit Distributors, Ltd, which gives that company monopoly rights of the importation of bananas and some other fruit. I have been involved in the business for over 50 years and can state that if monopoly rights- on bananas are removed we will see a return to the days of shop window notices, “No bananas.” Because the Pacific Islands cannot meet New Zealand’s requirements, it has been necessary to import bananas from Ecuador and the Philippines. This requires chartered shipping on a regular arrival basis. Most banana ships can carry between 220,000 and 300,000 cartons in one loading and as New Zealand’s requirements are considerably below this, the maintenance of chartered shipping is borderline. Chartered shipping gives two-port discharge, Auckland and Lyttelton, and if this arrangement cannot be continued, bananas will become very scarce in the South Island.—Yours, etc., C. R. WALKER. Wellington, July 24, 1985.
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