FIJI BANANAS
WHO GETS THE PROFIT? “ Who gets the profit? ” asks the Fiji Times in an article on the price which Fiji bananas are bringing in New Zealand. The Fiji grower receives 4s a case after a year of hard work and cultivation; the middleman supplies the case, repacks and ships the fruit to the New Zealand Government at iOs 4d a case on the wharf at Suva. The landed cost in Auckland, it is estimated, should not be more than 17s 6d. So much for the Fiji end of the story. In New Zealand the bananas are repacked in somewhat smaller cases, are distributed to the retailers, and are eventually bought by the public at a fixed price of 7d per pound. Worked out on a basis of the 90-1001 b case which leaves Fiji, this means that the case for which the grower in Fiji received 4s and the middleman 10s 4d from the New Zealand Government, actually brings from £2 15s to £2 18s from the New Zealand public. The New Zealand Government is a Socialist Government pledged to destroy all profiteers!
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25303, 13 August 1943, Page 4
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185FIJI BANANAS Otago Daily Times, Issue 25303, 13 August 1943, Page 4
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