BELATED FRUIT PAYMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 25, 30 July 1934, Page 12

BELATED FRUIT PAYMENTS.

Cheque's for Gisborne apples shipped overseas more than two years ago have just beeu received by orchardists. The fruit concerned in the payments was sent to the Argentine, which placed an embargo on money going, out of the country shortly after the fruit was shipped. Various means were attempted by the New Zealand Fruit Board to secure the release of the money, but little success was met with, apparently, until recently. Only a few of the exporters to' the Argentine have received payments yet- for sales two years ago. but now that some cheques have come to hand other exporters have hopes too. Fruit was .sent . also from Gisborne last year and this year to .the Argentine,' but the quantities were not large. No payments have been made on either last year's or this year's fruit, v "It is this instrument alone (says the June "P.L.A. Monthly") which the producers and 'handlers of the shipping nations will accept as wholly satisfactory and sufficient, and its reputation dates from the gradual adoption of the liberty of trade -policy-, recommended by that great seaman—he was a great statesman, too— Raleigh."