Insufficient Shipping For Central
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Pacific Fruit
THERE was a marked shortage of bananas and oranges in New Zea land during April, and retail prices there have been high.
This is the more exasperating to Cen tral Pacific planters, when it is known that there are plenty of oranges in the Cook Islands, and abundant supplies of bananas in most of the Territories.
The trouble, of course, is shortage of shipping space. There also has been a serious dislocation owing to one of the vessels, running regularly between New Zealand and the Islands, being laid up.
We understand that the shortages have been relieved by substantial ship ments during the past two or three weeks.
Dr. K. Washington Gray, chief geologist of the A.P. Co., accompanied by Mrs.
Gray and family, recently returned to Papua after a short holiday in Australia.
Mr. J. R. Horan, A.R.M. at Rigo, Papua, and Mrs. Horan left recently for Australia. Mr. Horan is being relieved by Patrol Officer F. P. Brewer.