Good Prices For Rarotongan
p. 45 · Read in the full issue
Tomatoes
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga. Sept. 24.
DURING the last three months, excel lent prices have been received for local tomatoes on the N.Z. market—for tomatoes shipped by the September boat buyers paid up to 10/- per 22 lb. box. It is a pity that the season is of so short a duration, in view of the fact that the Islanders’ only income beside these until the next orange season is bananas.
Captain George Harvey, who last cen tury was a well-known figure in the Pacific, died in September in Auckland, New Zea land, aged 95. An Englishman, he went to N.Z. in his early youth and later be came a seaman on vessels engaged in the Western Pacific “blackbirding” trade —recruiting native labour, mostly in the New Hebrides. He was well acquainted with the notorious Captain “Bully” Hayes, who at one time wanted him to join his schooner “Black Diamond”.