ORANGE SUPPLY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24969, 11 August 1944, Page 4

ORANGE SUPPLY

FRUIT FROM AUSTRALIA . HOPES TO REVIVE TRADE V (Reed. 7.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. i 0 New Zealand could have taken ~ 500,000 cases of oranges last year from'V Australia, said the Dominion's. High' Commissioner, Jlr J. G. Barclay, speaking at a civic reception at Gtisford centre of a rich. New South Wales orange-growing district. When the war was over, Mr Barclay said, he would make every effort to get / New South Wales oranges into X eff Zealand in big quantities. There were now no trade rivalries between the two countries and'the position did not arise where New Zealand said: "If you take my potatoes 1 will take your oranges." He held the decided opinion that there should be more of a co-operative spirit and less of a competitive one. The latter should never enter into trade relations again. It is pointed out that with the exception of the Murrumbidgee irrigation area, there has been a total ban on the importation of New South Wales oranges into New Zealand since the.eud of 1933 because, the New Zealand auth. orities stated, of the risk of introducing fruit fly. Those in New South Wales concerned with citrus exportation eontended at the time that the prohibition was enforced following activities by the Taemanian potato growers, which resulted in the Federa! Government ban* ning the entry of New Zealand potatoes into the Commonwealth.