NO ORANGES, SO NO INVITATION
An Affront to Waterfront Picnic Party WELLINGTON, last night. Because no oranges'were made available for the waterside and transport workers' annual picnic, which was held at Maidstone' Park to-day, no representatives of the Government were invited, according to an olfcial of the picnic committee. Last year the Minister of Finance, Miv'Nash, and the Minister of Transport, Mr. O'Brien, attended. The committee had -asked for 20 cases of oranges to het allocated, which was the quota allowed the previous year, but this was refused. The officials said the unions for which the picnic wag held, were those of the watersiders, ships' carpenters, storemen, stevedores, seamen and transport drivers. For to-day's outing, virtually all work on the waterfront ceased. It was stated .that the Minister of Marketing, Mr. Cullen, in a letter had refused to grant the oranges on the ground of their acute shortage. He v/rote that a fairly large shipment had arrived in Wellington, but it had already been distributed, with the exception of some held for hospitals and other institutions, which had a priority need for them.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5315, 30 January 1947, Page 4
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183NO ORANGES, SO NO INVITATION Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5315, 30 January 1947, Page 4
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