AUSTRALIAN FRUIT
ATTEMPT TO LIFT EMBARGO OPPOSITION FROM GROWERS. (Peb Unjted Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, September 13. Opposition to any attempt to lift the embargo on Australian fruit was expressed in remits carried by the conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation. The danger of the introduction of Oriental peach moth and various types of fruit fly and thrip was stressed. As orchardists must have the security of a permanent policy on which to build the fruitgrowing industry it was agreed also that the Government should be asked to investigate the question of importations of canned and dried fruits from Australia, which were believed to be subsidised, and canned and dried fruits and jams from South Africa. >lt was stated that these were very seriously handicapping the expansion of the industry, both primary and secondary, in New Zealand.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22367, 14 September 1934, Page 10
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