AIR SERVICE GROWTH

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 941, 7 April 1930, Page 10

AIR SERVICE GROWTH

MR, HARVEY TURNER IMPRESSED AUSTRALIAN FRUIT TRADE A flight in an airplane from the Murrumbidgee district to Adelaide convinced Mr. Harvey Turner. of Auckland, of the value of air services. It lessened the expected time of his journey by a day. This morning, when he returned from Sydney by the Niagara, Mr. Turner commented on the growth of air services in Australia. and on fruit marketing in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, for he was, as a member of the Auckland market firm of Turners and Growers, on a business trip, too. Passages on the Sydney-Brisbane air sex-vices were booked weeks ahead, Air. Turner said. The journey took only four or four and a-lialf hours. Air. Turner found that fruit prices in Sydney were extremely high, with the exception of two or three lines. Grapes were cheap and the prices had decreased sharply when winemakers refused to buy supplied for a period. The bananas grown in Queensland. Air. Turner thought, did not match the Island fruit sold in New Zealand in texture or in' flavour. Referring to the measures taken by the Federal Government to obtain financial stability, Air. Turner said the people were prepared almost for anything. The lead given by a railway official in reducing his own salary substantially had not left room for an attack by Jock Garden and his fellows on the policy of decreasing wages in the public services. Australia undoubtedly had become inflated. and the people would be compelled to work through a difficult time. In 30 unions in New Soutli Wales there were 38,720 unemployed, and tho position in that State was worse than that in Victoria. In the fruit business serious complaints against the depression were being made. Air. Turner could not see that the Government could have avoided drastic action.