FRUIT INDUSTRY
FIJIAN BANANA TRADE. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, October 14. Fiji bananas on which there has hitherto beeli" a heavy duty, may now be shipped to 'Sydney and Melbourne under the terms of the new trade a£ijreement between and Australia affecting The Crown colonies, the tariff having been reduced from 8s 4d to 2s 6d per cental. The quantity is to be limited to forty thousand centals per year, which, it is officially believed, will not interfere with the localfygrown banana trade. The Queensland banana growers, however, are making a spirited protest. They declare that the new arrangement savours of a political vendetta.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1932, Page 5
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