Japanese Onions
Sir, —I think most housewives'in the Dominion must have heard of the import into the country of Japanese onions. These onions were due to
arrive in Auckland on July 22. in Wednesday’s Herald we read from Sydney that 700 bags of New Zealand onions had arrived that day in firstclass order, and it was hoped to fetch :t3O per ton. Now I would like to know why New Zealand onions are being exported from the country at Ihe same time as the Japanese onions are being imposed? If there was such a shortage as Mr. Picot says, why was not the home-grown article used first? Mr. Picot says the Japanese onions were ordered some time ago. If that is the ease, surely there could not have been a shortage then, with 700 bags in New Zealand ready for export.
Furthermore, Mr. Picpi says we have other things imported from Japan, such as silk stockings, oak furniture, tinned salmon, cloth, etc. Why, then, are the restrictions put on English goods? Yet the Government is importing from a foreign country which has insulted Britishers apd New Zealanders. The Minister of Finance went to England to borrow money to help New Zealand out of its present financial predicament, ii
is England we look to to buy our exports and to protect and help us. In time of war we depend upon our British Navy. Yet we see Japanese goods everywhere we go, and less British goods.
The Prime Minister has appealed to the housewives of New Zealand to buy New Zealand-made goods first, and secondly to buy British. This is excellent advice, but how can we buy either New Zealand or British-made goods if they are not branded? if goods are imported from Japan or any other foreign country, why is it not compulsory to have some means of making known to -the public their origin? We have to buy where our money goes farthest. At the same time, I, at least, like to know where my money is going, and I shall not buy Japanese onions or Japanese goods of any kind—not if I know it. N.Z. HOUSEWIFE.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 14
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358Japanese Onions Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 14
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