NORFOLK ISLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1935, Page 4

NORFOLK ISLAND

AND ITS FOSTER PARENTS

.Sirs. Sylvia K. Morgan, of Now South Wales, writes to the Press criticising the Commonwealth Government for neglecting its Norfolk Island flopendency. "New' Zealand has rei'use'd to admit Norfolk Island bananas, for -she says that, it is the responsibility of the Commonwealth, which is true. But what has the Commonwealth done in this direction? Left-their produce to rot on the island in the most callous manuer imaginable. "I am interested in' Norfolk Island, and would like to know why the residents there should be entirely forgotten, and given no change to sell their produce like other members of ihe Commonwealth. Why this ban on their bananas, this tax, this almost total absence of transport, this cruelty and'indifference from our Government? "Canborra is responsible for the island, and should give equal chances -fop all. I have a son there, and although ho owns two plantations he is practically without the means of support, although ho has spent years of hard work there, and grows beautiful bananas. Ho has the heartbreaking sight of watching1 good fruit rotting for want o£ transport and an outlet. When the fruit does reach Sydney it only returns a fraction of its value."