BANANAS FROM SAMOA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21198, 2 December 1930, Page 6

BANANAS FROM SAMOA.

REGULAR SHIPMENTS ASSURED. When interviewed yesterday by a Daily Times representative, Mr J. H. Duncan, manager for Messrs H. L. Tapley and Co., supplied additional particulars concerning the supply of Samoan bananas for the Dunedin market. He confirmed the statement made last week that Messrs iapley and Co. had secured the contract for supplying shipments of bananas from aamoa. It was hoped that the Government motor ship Maui Pomare would make replar trips to Dunedin and other South Island ports, and merchants were assured that supplies would reach the market at intervals. In referring to the statement that had appeared in the newspapers in regard to duty of 2 a 6d per caie that nould be charged on bananas shipped from Samoa, Mr Duncan said he was vitally interested in the matter, and investigated the position when in Wellington last JT ee “; stated most emphatically that the duty would have no bearing on the price charged for Samoan bananas in New Zealand. Messrs Tapley and Co, were not paying the duty, and the duty would 7pnl n b^ Pa T^ d the Public of New Jbe department that controlled Samoa evidently had good reasons for im?k°nT g tb L du > .AH the Samoan bananas that would be shipped under the terms *b® * c 2 ntr^ ct would be sold by the department to Messrs Tapley and 7 Co., f.o.b. at Apia, and any export duty payH paid by the GoveAmLnt paHnwi department to the Customs DefboWL *■ In any caee . !t was quite clear that the price paid by Messrs Tapley and 9a fJ° U d not mclude tbe export duty of 2a oa per case. J