ISLAND FRUIT LEVY
A DUNEDIN CRiTIC
(By Telegraph)
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, July 14. Condemnation of the increased levy for the inspection of Cook Island fruit was voiced by a Dunedin fruiterer.
The levy, on Island fruit, ho said, meant, the payment of double taxation, as something like 50 per cent, of tho fruit was unsaleable through deterioration. No Island fruit had come direct to Dunedin for some years, transhipments being.made from Wellington. The higher levy was unwarranted, as Island fruit was poor at any time. Tho Australian orange was the finest in the world, yet it was shut out. New Zealand was starving for good oranges, the Island fruit being "bags of sugar and water."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 10
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118ISLAND FRUIT LEVY Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 10
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