FIJI CANCELS PRODUCE ORDERS FROM N.Z.
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 26. A repercussion of the abolition of the exchange rate had been the cancellation of orders from Fiji for New Zealand potatoes, onions, apples and other lines of produce, stated the Fruit and Produce Merchants’ Federation. Several members of the federation reported the receipt of cable messages on Monday last in which island clients intimated that they had been compelled by the increased cost of 25 per cent on New Zealand produce to cancel their orders in favour of Australia. “The loss of the islands’ trade will be a severe blow to New Zealand,” said the secretary ol the federation. Mr. E. E. Barrows. “It is a trade that has been developed over the past 75 years.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22727, 27 August 1948, Page 7
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