Trade
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Cook Is. Orange
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, July 20.
OUT of 7500 cases of oranges shipped to Auckland from Aitutaki and Man gaia, by the Waikawa in May, only one per cent, of loss from bad fruit resulted.
The whole of the fruit was carried on deck. Market reports indicate that the fruit was well packed, and graded, and arrived in especially good condition.
A second shipment was made in July to Auckland per the Karetu. The quan tity, 25,137 cases, was made up as follows: Oranges, 21,609 (of this about 10,000 were from Rarotonga); bananas, 3216; and tomatoes, 312 cases. The shipment came from the five main islands of the Group.
Again the fruit arrived in excellent con dition. The losses worked out at about five per cent., which is very much better than last year, when some of the mail boat shipments resulted in losses of 40 per cent, from bad fruit.
So far this year some 30,000 cases of Cook Island oranges have been landed on the New Zealand market with less than 5 per cent, wastage.