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MLC's Plan I
For Free
Apples
B B
HOBAItT. — Mr W. G. Wedd.
MLC. will organise a fleet of
lorries to bring apples from the
orchards and dump them in the
parks for the people, if apple
marketing like last year enn-
, tinucd.
! He said this to the Legislative
'Council last night.
. He said millions of bushels of
apples this year would waste under
rhe trees while city dwellers,
especially children, were deprived
of them. He would run the risk
of prosecution to make apples
available to the public.
Previously up to 16 a bushel
had to be paid 10 the Australian
Apple and Pear Marketing Board
for apples, and children had to pay
a penny each for them in the
shops. This was while huge dumps
of the fruit rotted under trees.
! The Government should subsi
dise shopkeepers so that people
could get apples at 2. an open
case.
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