Fruit For N.Z.
p. 50 · Read in the full issue
Over-crowded Market will Affect Cook Island.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, Feb. 27 LOOKING forward at the fruit season now approaching, we feel here that the prospects for marketing are not promising.
There is a vague presentment felt amongst those handling fruit that changes may be pending in shipping and marketing, disadvantageous to these islands.
We know that our market in New Zealand is an open one, and, this being so, is well supplied from various sources in the Pacific. We see less and less fruit being shipped from the Cook Group.
The position is uncertain, but, doubt less, we shall find the usual facilities provided for both the purchase and shipping of our season’s output of fruit.
The Resident Commissioner, Judge Ayson, who is expected to arrive back from New Zealand in the course of a day or two, will, we trust, be in a position to make a forecast on the out look, for the immediate future at least.
It is certain that the Commissioner’s presence in New Zealand at this junc ture will result in the best possible consideration, in the interests of these islands, being given at the hands of the New Zealand Government.