Cook Islands Oranges

From Our Rarotonga Correspondent New Zealand merchants are ne gotiating for next year’s orange crop at 6/6 per case f.o.b. Rarotonga.

This price is not acceptable to native growers, especially as they have heard that these merchants are offering 9/per case f.o.b. to Tahitian growers for the same seedling orange, and, in ad dition, there is a duty of 5/- per case into New Zealand for the Tahitian, product.

On the face of it, it hardly looks as if Rarotongan growers are getting a fair deal.