Kumaras For N.Z.
p. 16 · Read in the full issue
Tonga Preparing Shipment
From Our Own Correspondent.
NUKUALOFA, January 30.
GROWERS with vision and foresight have already planted their seed kumaras so that they will have a crop for shipment to New Zealand at a time when the Dominion market (so far as the New Zealand sweet potato is con cerned) will be bare.
The low price of copra has thus been not altogether an evil in this Kingdom, for, had that price been maintained which obtained prior to three years ago, it is safe to say that neither the banana nor kumara, as a marketable product, would have interested the Islanders at all.
As it is, from all accounts, there is the certainty of copra prices improv ing to a figure which will give the growers a respectable profit, even if that time cannot yet be definitely dated. And so it follows that, when that happy state is reached, the Ton gan planter will find himself “sitting pretty,” with three strings to his bow —bananas, kumaras and copra.
Now, you “dismal Daniels,” can you find anything wrong in that?