FRUIT CONTROVERSY

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 146, 15 March 1940, Page 10

FRUIT CONTROVERSY

Australian Development SYDNEY. Marell 14. Because of its objection to the Commonwealth's Government's pooling plan for marketing apples and pears, the New .South Wales Government has withdrawn all officers of the Department of Agriculture who are assisting to carry out (lie plan. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Reid, stated that a strong protest was made by the State Government to tile Federal Government and tile present action was taken because the State could not get satisfaction from the Federal authorities. The action of the New South Wales Government is evidently an official sequel to the Melbourne incident of last week, in which fruit growers demonstrated against (lie Federal Government's regulations. These require growers to deliver their fruit to the Apple and Pear Board for controlled marketing. Growers in Melbourne pelted officials witli fruit. TRADE PACT UNLIKELY Australia And United States NEW YORK. Mareli 13. Commenting on a statement by the Australian Minister to tile United Stales. Mr. Casey, that the time was inappropriate to negotiate a trade agreement between Australia and the United States, and that a post-war agreement was unlikely because of the similarity in the products of the two countries, the ••Journal of Commerce.” in a preliminary exploration of the subject. supports Mr. Casey. "Since Australia is>largely agricultural.” comments the journal, “the United States would need to grant tariff reductions on commodities competing witli her own production, and these would not lie compensated for by Australia's industrial concessions to tlie United States.”