MINISTER ON ORANGE PRICES
The price of oranges was the subject of an urgent question by Mr. Carr (Government, Auckland West) in conjunction with Mr. Osborne (Government, Onehunga). They asked the Minister of Marketing, Mr. Barclay, whether his attention had been drawn to an article in an Auckland newspaper stating that oranges were sold at Hid. each, and if he was aware that locally-grown oranges were sold at auction at 70/- a case. The questioners asked if steps would be taken to ensure that "such extortionate prices” would not be charged for locally-grown fruit in future. Mr. Barclay said that' locally-grown oranges were sold and marketed through ordinary trading channels without control or supervision by the Marketing Department. Because of the extreme difficulty of securing regular shipments of oranges from any of the usual overseas sources being experienced by the Internal Marketing Division existing circumstances enabled the trade to obtain the present high prices for the limited crop of a few hundred cases which became available annually.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 8
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167MINISTER ON ORANGE PRICES Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 8
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