Queries About Onions.

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 11

Queries About Onions.

Sir, —An interesting news item appears on page 13 of “The Dominion” of this date, beaded “New Zealand Onion Shipment,” and goes on to state that choice New Zealand onions arrived in Sydney on a bare market. They are expected to command more than £3O a ton. I gather from recent news items that the Internal Marketing Division has imported a quantity of onions from Japan and caused quite a fiutter in interested quarters. This, I thought, was a trifle unjustified, especially as the Internal Marketing Division says that we are short of our home-grown onions, and anyway, I’m as fond of an onion as anybody. I am now as indignant as the said interested quarters, because, being a simple soul, I would rather eat our own onions than Jap dittoes, and I now discover that our own have been sneaked out of the country, and foreigners palmed off on us. Can the Minister of Marketing give a simple explanation of such an unnatural pheno menon. In fact, as a taxpayer, I demand an explanation. —I am, etc., YOUNG ALBERT. Wellington, July 26.