Crops Damaged In Cook
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Islands
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Jan. 6.
DURING December the Cook Islands were buffeted for more than a week by gales and hurricane force winds.
Rarotonga and Aitutaki suffered most, a good deal of damage being done to the new orange crop, bananas and paw paws. As a result the orange crop from these islands will be poor this year—it is estimated that the total for Rarotonga will not exceed 15,000 cases, quite a contrast from the 150,000 cases formerly shipped per season.