OVERSEA APPLES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 16, 30 December 1932, Page 5

OVERSEA APPLES

AUSTRALIAN RESTRICTIONS. "RESENTMENT IN CANADA.” “Everywhere I went, Australia seemed to be the odd man out and to be treading on the corns of others,” said Mr J. B. Mills, who attended the Ottawa Conference in an advisory capacity. Mr Mills represented the Victorian fruitgrowers, and he spoke at a meeting of the executive of the Victorian Fruit Marketing Association recently. There was no doubt, Mr Mills said, that resentment had been caused in Canada by the restrictions placed on the importation of Canadian apples into Australia. The reason given for these restrictions was that Australians feared that apple trees would be affected by fireblight, which was prevalent in some parts of Canada. Canadians doubted the genuineness of this objection as they had been sending apples to England for many years without causing any infection to English trees. Until Australia relaxed her restrictions on Canadian apples, Canada would not be prepared to consider the imposition of duties on apples from the United States. Australia had also offended New Zealand by her restrictions on apples from that country.