EMPIRE DRIED FRUITS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19261, 27 August 1924, Page 7

EMPIRE DRIED FRUITS

' ■ «£» —" AUSTRALIAN PROPAGANDA. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 21. The Morning Post’s first editorial this morning begins: ‘‘We have received, doubtless in common with other newspapers, a box of dried fruits, samples from tho Australian Dried Fruits Association. We have tried them, and found them second to none. There are currants, sultanas, raisins, apricots, and peaches. “Enclosed in the box was a typewritten statement saying: ‘lt is not a wise policy to buy these products grown by sons of Australia, Anzacs, and other British settlers, who may yet be called upon again as storm troops to defend the Empire’s liberty? These dried fruits are not grown by cheap labour. They are not packed Under unhygienic conditions. They are not grown by enemy peoples or by treacherous neutrals.’ ” The paper asks: “Could there be a more simple, more exact, or more dignified statement?” It eamestlv urges British people to purchase Australian dried fruits, and condemns the Government for refusing even to abate the taxes on Australian produce.—A. and N.Z. Cable.