ORANGES A LUXURY
.Sir, —How much longer will the people of New Zealand suffer from the high orange prices resulting from the embargo against the importation of Australian citrus fruit? The Labour Government is pledged to serve the interests of the public, and the best they can do is to relax the embargo to exactly the same extent as the former Government allowed last year. What is the result? The price is kept up, and, instead of this health-giving fruit going into every home, it has become a luxury. There is no more flagrant example of "scarcity in the midst of plenty." Mr. Nasli has explained that "the prosperity of the Cook Islands peoplo depends to a considerable extent on the export of oranges to New Zealand." So that is why we have to pay these high prices, to support a population of 12.000 to whom we already export £54,261 worth of goods and take £77,018 in return! Or is it to preserve the Government's ridiculous "bargaining-power" over the Australian embargo on our potatoes. In either case the people are suffering as a result of bungling political methods, and it is time they agitated for an improvement of the situation. Undeceived.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22538, 1 October 1936, Page 15
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