BOYCOTT ON ORANGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12397, 9 November 1934, Page 6

BOYCOTT ON ORANGES.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TOO DEAR. BANNED BY WELLINGTON FRUITERERS. (Press Association' WELLINGTON. Nor. 8 A meeting of over 200 Wellington fruiterers today, declared a boycott on South Australian oranges, resolving. “That the prices asked for the present class of oranges is excessive, and that retail fruiterers refuse to purchase any further oranges until the price is reduced.” A committee was appointed to consider the unsatisfactory wav in which retailers were being compelled to buy inferior quality oranges at a ridiculously high rate. Mr. R. A. Wright. MiP.. assured the meeting that he would call attention to the matter in the House of Representatives. Mr. W>. Hatch, president of the European Retail Fruiterers’ Association, said the fruit came from South Australia, and new supplies were not sold to retailers until the previous stock" was disposed of. Meantime the oranges were kept in cool storage, which was definitely deleterious. Retailers suffered a loss of often as much as 2-5 per cent on a case through the fruit having to he condemned. He instanced a ease of oranges Much had been opened in the presence of Mr. R. A. Wright. M.P.. out of a total of 216 oranges, 17 proved to he bad. Leading Wellington wholesale fruit merchants refused to make nnv statement pending the arrival on Saturday from Dunedin of Air. 0- N. S. "Mueller, of the Australian Fruitgrowers’ Association.