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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 548, 13 July 1920, Page 2

Onion growers in Victoria are pressing for protection against the importation of onions from Japan. A large deputation of growers pointed out to the Acting-Minister for Customs that Japan is sending extensive quantities of onions to Australia (the value of the imports last year was something like W4,000), and asked that the duty on onions, which was recently increased under the new tariff from Is to Is 6d a cwt., should be fixed at £6 a ton. The protection was asked for only with regard to onions imported from Japan, and was not to be applied to imports from New Zealand or other countries em-i ploying white labour. m I