Canned Pineapples
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From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Nov. 23.
OOME idea of what the pineapple industry might mean to Fiji if develop ed with vigour and scientific supervision, is given by a summary of the season just ended by the Hawaiian Pineapple Com pany, whose Honolulu cannery is the world’s largest.
New records were established. In the season, which ran from July 2 to Sep tember 25, the 11,700 men and women employed were paid $2,500,000 in wages.
These were only part-time or seasonal employees. The great cannery piled up some 4,000,000 working hours in this short period. Round-the-clock shifts are worked. The canned products are ship ped to every corner of the globe.
Captain F. G. Forster, of the Fiji Defence Force, was recently awarded the Efficiency Decoration.