Cook Islands Fruit
p. 22 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, July 21.
ALTHOUGH exact figures are not avail able yet regarding the profit and loss account on “controlled’" orange ship ments from the Cook Islands, enquiries among officials point to these being satis factory, with the exception of the first consignment by the Limet'ick in May.
The latter shipment reached N.Z. in poor condition, but a new method of dunnage on trans-Pacific steamers is expected to obviate this in future.
Extensive renovation work«has been begun on plantations.
The new Resident Commissioner (Mr.
S. J. Smith) in a number of “talks’’ to growers, appealed to all to join together in the co-operative spirit which was once so marked a feature of Polynesian life.
As a result of Mr. Smith’s obvious per sonal interest in their welfare, the nat ives have responded by undertaking pruning and other operations on the com
munity system.