A SENSIBLE EXCHANGE
Australian mandarin growers aie to-be, assisted, by a grant of £10,000 from the Commonwealth Government and £10,000 from the Government of New South Wales. "The assistance to growers," slated a cable message on Saturday, "is in consideration of their serious position, largely due to the loss of the New Zealand market." In other words, Australian people are to be taxed;because we are denied the opportunity of eating the fruit which Australia grows. It is not that we have too much citrus fruit in New Zealand. Judged by price it is still in short supply, and from the South Island particularly there are insistent demands for a wider opening of the door. The self-denial is forced upon New Zealand consumers. Nor can it be said, after the thorough examination of the issue by competent scientists, that the risk of disease makes this abstention necessary. \Would it not, therefore, be desirable to allow our consumers to lake the fruit for the benefit of their own health and the pockets of Australian growers? What obstacle hinders the political application of the measures which the I scientists have approved?
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 8
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188A SENSIBLE EXCHANGE Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 8
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