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ONIONS FOR AUSTRALIA DISS AT ISF ACTION EXPRESSED (Special to Times) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday “We won't be humbugged by New Zealand any more," stated a letter received by a city firm of grain and produce meivhanls from another firm of merchants in Sydney in reference to the marketing of unions, over which dissatisfaction has arisen among merchants and some of the growers and merchants in Awslraliu. The cause of the dissatisfaction is Hie grading of export onions at Lyttelton by Government graders. Cashel Street merchants said to-day that the standard of grading was so high that lhe number of rejections was making it very difficult to quote for Australia. Rejected lines had to be disposed of on the local market and the merchant then had to acquire fresh lines to he s-übmitted for shipment, When complaints were submitted to Mr R McGillivray. fields superintendent of the Department of Agriculture. lie said that onions were being rejected because of disease.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 9
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