Rarotongan Products
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Some Fine Pineapples
From Our Own Correspondent.
RAROTONGA, December 4.
WATERMELONS and Avacado pears are plentiful just now, and locally grown pineapples of good size are being picked.
There are several fairly large areas under pineapple cultivation at Raro tonga, but it would seem that, for the present at least, the supply is not greatly in excess of that which will meet local demand.
In past years (but not now) coffee, tobacco and vanilla beans were grown here and formed part of the export trade of these islands. Competition from without has killed each of these exports, leaving bananas, oranges, copra and tomatoes the support of the Cook Group.