AUSTRALIAN EXPORTS.
PARTY LEADER’S CONCERN. Received September 6, 8.5 a.m. ADELAIDE, Sept. 5. The Leader of the Country Party (Mr A. G. Cameron), who is Minister of the Navy, supplemented his party’s policy speech to-night. Dealing with some aspects of primary production affected by the loss of oversea markets, lie said fruit and wheat were giving the Government most concern. It was proposed to make the best arrangement possible with regard to marketing next year’s apples and pears, while with regard to wheat the Government strongly advised the growers, whose industry had been subsidised to the extent of £15,000,000 in. the past eight years, to embark on diversified forms of farming for which an export market was practically assured.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 239, 6 September 1940, Page 7
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119AUSTRALIAN EXPORTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 239, 6 September 1940, Page 7
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