Light

For Rarotonga

Refrigeration and Electric Light

r>LANS were almost finalised for the A establishment of a combined central packing shed, precooling store for citrus fruits and other products, and a domestic refrigerating plant at Avarua, the port of Rarotonga, said Mr. R. Sutherland, of the N.Z. Department of Agriculture, who returned to Auckland from the Cook Islands early in November.

The proposed establishment (which also would supply electric light) would re place the existing seven native packing sheds, which would, however, be retained purely as receiving houses. The new plant would be under the control of a h’ghly trained officer, while a long range policy of organisation for the Islands fruit industry would be incorporated in the scheme. The importation of expensive machinery from abroad would take months, and it was unlikely the proposed scheme would be in operation before 1939.