Canned Pines
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New Industry Started in Tahiti
From Our Own Correspondent
R Papeete, Oct. 24.
E recently constituted Societe Indus trielle Agricole de Tahiti will begin operating its factory for the canning of pineapples on November 1.
The Company will despatch, this sea son, 10,000 cases of this product to France, to fill contracts already negoti ated. Sample shipments of canned Ta hitian pineapples have established the Company’s product in the favour of buy ers, and the full season’s output has been taken at a price only two francs per case below that of the well-advertised Hawai ian canned pineapple.
Plantations of pineapple in the dis tricts of Papara, Vaiari and Mahina are bemg extended and will come into full bearing in 1939, when the Company will be able to produce 30,000 to 40,000 cases By virtue of contracts with native land owners, the Company plans to double the acreage of pineapples each year.
The operating plant is equipped with the finest machinery of the latest pat tern; enabling the Society to manufac ture at minimum costs.
The success of this newly-established industry may be a deciding factor in the future welfare of these islands. The re duced prices of copra and vanilla, and the practical extinction of the mar ket for pearl-shell, make imperative new agricultural undertakings and experi ments; for agriculture is the sole foun dation of the economy in this colony— so far as the native Polynesian is con cerned.