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TASMAN1AN OROHARDISTS.
Request for Government Aid.
HOBART, Thursdays— A- reply has been
sent to the offer of the Federal Govern
ment to assist the Tasmanian growers by
lending the State. £25,000 for three years
without interest,, the Government to take
the responsibility of repaying the amount
Tlie reply was as follows; —
Reirardinpf the request of the Tasmanian apple
growers for financial .assistance, the .amount
sixfclflcd by you is Inadequate. Tlie export
truda is your Government's responsibility, and
Tasmania cannot therefore uceept the whole of
the responsibility as desired bv you. Your
Government's offer simply means an interest free
/ Qc,t1ual aistanee being approximately
£4oG0 in all.. Subject to Parliamenturj' ap
proval, we arc prepared to advance to your Go
vernment £60,000. under the following, condi
tions:— (a) Tne Commonwealth to find a simi
lar amount; (b) the Tasmanian loan to-be free
of interest, and to be repaid by the Common-
wealth Government within three ycare; (c) the
aniomn. provided by the Tasmanian and Com
monwealth Governments to be used to assist
those growers who tfre in very bad circumstances
to enable ' thenr to remain on their orchards
and cultivate the coming season's crop: (d)
mningcmcnts for-' ullotmont and recovery of
moneys so distributed to be undertaken bv the
Tasmanian, Government if- desired bv the 'Com
monwealth Government, '
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