Fruit Quotas.
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Improved Outlook for Cook Is.
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Jan. 1.
A stir was caused throughout the Group early in the month when news was received that New Zealand had placed a total embargo on all Australian fruits —including oranges.
It is gratifying to these fruit produc ing islands, shut out of the Australian market by tariffs, to see Australia obliged to swallow some of her own medicine.
Negotiations which apparently have been proceeding between New Zealand and Fiji and Samoa, over the question of quotas, have resulted in the Cook Group being asked by the New Zealand Government to agree to restrict its ban ana export to 6,000 cases every four weeks.
The principle of a quota for the Cook Islands, which is New Zealand territory, was received with mixed feelings but following a public meeting at which Judge Ayson, the Resident Commis sioner presided, it was agreed to accept the proposal made from Wellington.
Any difficulty about apportioning the quota amongst individual exporters ap pears to be capable of satisfactory solu tion. Shipping space allotted to export ers by the last mail boat is to be taken as the basis for determining individual quotas.