The Duty on Fruit.
(Per Press Association.) I.WKKCAiNiiMi, Sept. 21. When asked for his opinion respecting tiro proposed fruit duties, Mr J. C. Blackmore, Government Pomologist, stated that the rate ot Id i>er lb from November to April would be uo protection to the New Zeaiaud fruit grower whatever as during November, December and January Tasmania had no apples or pears to export. From the second week in February, and during March and April, Hobart shipped to England, and did not require the New Zealand market. By taking off the duty during May June and July. Parliament was playing nicely into the Tasmanian growers' bands, as they had a large surplus, principally culls, from the grading of English shipments, which they were glad to sell at almost auy price. Mr Blackmore suggests that the duty might bo reduced from the middle of August to the end of October. To reduce during May, June and July would make the New Zeaiaud ports, especially the Southern ones, a dumping ground for surplus Tasinauian fruit, rendering it unprofitable for Northern growers to ship South.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 8, 23 September 1895, Page 2
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181The Duty on Fruit. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 8, 23 September 1895, Page 2
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