AUSTRALIAN ORANGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1934, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ORANGES

SOUTH ISLAND CONSIGNMENTS. [PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.] INVERCARGILL, September 3. A further shipment of South Australian oranges reached the Bluff by the steamer Waitaki from Melbourne this morning. Of 9000 cases for the South Island, 1050 were landed at the Bluff. The next shipment of oranges is due on September 23. Mr C. Mueller, representative of the Murray Citrus Fruit Growers’ Cooperative Association (Australia) Ltd., who is visiting Invercargill, said, to-day, he had heard that his presence in New Zealand had been questioned. He explained that there was nothing sinister in an organisation having its market representative watching its interests in all markets. “We aim at a fair deal all round, and if I consider a client has been badly treated I am on the spot to adjust the difference,” het said. “This is no reflection on your merchants, many of whom are just as eager as I am that, satisfied clients should be the order of the day. I have been criticised for being appointed to allocate quantities to various centres. Somebody had to do it, under the quota fixed by the New Zealand Government, otherwise one port would have been swamped and one without. On the matter of the embargo, I think the New Zealanders should bear a little more with their Government in its negotiations with Australia. Both countries are faced with quite difficult problems, both produce the same goods and your Government at the present stage I am sure would not be doing its duty to turn back.”