Cook Island Oranges.
p. 36 · Read in the full issue
Smaller Crop for Season.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, March 25.
THIS season’s orange crop is not so heavy as last; but is far in excess of the quantity needed for normal ex port. A less prolific crop means only that there will be so many hundreds of thousands of oranges less that will drop off the trees to rot for want of a market.
Those familiar with the intricacies of orange importing in New Zealand fear that, apart from the pressure brought to bear by the Australian delegation now in New Zealand, forces in the Dominion itself may exert their influ ence to have the embargo lifted on Aus tralian oranges. It is fortunate for the Cook Group that its Administrator, Justice Ayson, was in Wellington, on the spot, when the Australian delega tion arrived.
The first shipment of oranges for the season goes forward on March 27 by the “Makura.” The shipment com prises about 4,000 cases.