IMPORTATION BANNED
Bananas From Norfolk Island DOMINION OVER-SUPPLIED The importation of bananas from Norfolk Island into New Zealand cannot be permitted said the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. AV. Forbes) and the Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. R. Masters) on Saturday. Mr. Masters said that as Norfolk Island was an Australian possession the responsibility for taking produce from the island rested with the Commonwealth. The supply of bananas from Samoa, Niue, Fiji and Rarotonga was in excess of New Zealand’s requirements, Mr. Masters said, and had been restricted. Consequently the importation of» Norfolk Island bananas could not be allowed. Australia had her own banana growers to consider and as a result would not take bananas from the island. “Australia is a big -country,” Mr. Forbes said, “and can use more bananas than we can. She has no right to expect us to take bananas from her possessions when we are over-supplied by our own.”
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 93, 14 January 1935, Page 8
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157IMPORTATION BANNED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 93, 14 January 1935, Page 8
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