Relief For Samoan Banana
p. 40 · Read in the full issue
Growers
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, April 10.
THE NZ Government has authorised the payment to planters of 2/6 per case (instead of the full price of 5/-) for about 8,000 cases of bananas which had to be left on the wharf during the heavy “blow” which struck Samoa on March 1 and 2. The vessel loading them had to leave the harbour and could not return for three days—by then the fruit had matured and was unfit for
transport.
Though there was no legal claim for the payment, the measure is intended to relieve hardship to banana-producers— but they have been given to understand that it does not establish a precedent for the future.