Japanese Onions Being Unloaded

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 7

Japanese Onions Being Unloaded

NO TROUBLE WITH WATERSIDERS Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 24. The unloading of tho shipment of 725 tons of Japanese onions which arrived at Auckland by the Naniwa Maru on Saturday morning began this morning. Mr, F. Picot, Director of Internal Marketing, who arrived from Wellington to superintend tho imports, said the onions had arrived in good condition and deliveries direct to fche trade had already begun. It was hoped to have the shipment unloaded by to-morrow evening. The entiro shipment for the whole Dominion was only 725 tons and not 1000 tons as previously reported. Mr. Picot said it was not the intention to place them on the market at one time but to feed the market as shortages in various localities made themselves apparent. Tho larger proportion was for the Auckland province. Questioned as to tho recently-sug-gested boycott on tho part of the Auckland Master Grocers' Association, Mr. Picot said ho bud interviewed several of tho larger retailers in Auckland and they had stated definitely that tlvey would bo handling the line. Tho onions from tho Naniwa Maru are to bo treated by tho Auckland waterside workers as ordinary general merchandise 'entering the country. This decision was made by the members of the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union who held a special meeting to discuss tho point. They were pleased < to learn, it was stated, that the Internal Marketing Division had given an assurance that no further Japanese produce would be imported.