INCREASED DUTY SOUGHT
N.Z. APPLES IN VICTORIA ■Supported by marketing 7 ASSOCIATION - 3/ (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ,5 MELBOURNE, ISthiSepteffiber.':; The Victorian Fruit "Marketing Asr sociation decided tgr-^#Jtoi;' J r sup|),cfft the efforts (now being, made fo ‘have the Tariff Board increase the duty on New Zealand apples?;” It was contended that increasing imports of , New Zealand apples are a danger to'Australian growers.' .7 v.,i, The Minister of Customs so, far .has declined .to grant, tlie’ request. VHe claims'that the present- duty;.of .10? a cental operating-.sinpe; 1321 is sufficient protection'; k ins! Jh e last fifteen years onlj* 34.1,.centals, valued at £297, were imported.'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 September 1936, Page 9
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