AUSTRALIAN ORANGES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN ORANGES

I SHIPMENT REACHES BLUFF [ Per Press Association 1 INVERCARGILL, Sept. 3. A further shipment of South Australian oranges reached Bluff by lhe steamer Waitaki from Melbourne this morning. Of the 9000 cases for the South Island, 1050 were landed at. Bluff. The next shipment of oranges is due on September 23. Mr. C. Mueller, representative, of the 1 Murray Citris Fruit Growers’ Cooperative Association (Australia') Ltd., who is visiting Invercargill, said today that he had heard that his pre- ’ sence in New Zealand had been que>sJ tioned. and explained that there was nothing sinister in an organisation having its market. representative ‘ watching its interests in all markets. “We aim at a fair deal all round, and if I consider a client ha.s been badly t treated. lam on the, spot to adjust the difference,” he said. “This is no re ’ flection on your merchants, many of ’ whom are just ns eager as 1 am that I satisfied clients should be, the order of the day, T have been criticised for boj ing appointed to allocate the quantities to the various centres Somebody had to do it under the. quota fixed by the New Zealand Government, otherwise one port would have been swamped and one without. “On the matter of the ci>argo, T think New Zealanders should bear a little more with their Government in i its negotiations with Australia. Both countries arc faced with quite, difficult t problems. Both produce the same t goods, and your Government ar, the present, stage, T am sure, world not be s doing its dutv to turn back.” t '