11,000 Cass Lighred And
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Loaded In One Day
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga. July 20.
NO less than 10,962 cases of oranges were loaded on the June “Matua" in one day at the small island of Atiu, Southern Cook Group.
When the “Matua” arrived off the island at 4 a.m., the Atiuans were wait ing out at sea with their boats loaded with cases. They worked without a break for 11 hours, as they were determined that not a case would be left behind.
Mr. D. Brown. Resident Agent in Atiu, and Mr. Bill Brien, U.S.S. Co.’s Raro tonga wharfinger, deserve credit: their organising capabilities made this pos sible. This island has no harbour. Every case had to be carried out to the edge of the reef, and loaded into the boats.
Colonel Kopprah Knut, Dictator of the South Seas, controller of our destinies.
But who the devil controls him?