Cook Is. Oranges
p. 48 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, April 17.
A PRELIMINARY shipment of Cl oranges left Rarotonga in March for New Zealand —the earliest start of an orange season for some years. Un fortunately, weather conditions prolonged full maturity of the oranges this year and only 3,000 cases were taken away.
At the end of March, 1940, the orange crop was fully mature, but no shipment was made until the end of April, which resulted in a substantial loss on the ground.
A shipment in April from the whole Lower Cook Group amounted to 22,000 cases, a satisfactory total in the circum stances.
Mr. W. R. Humphries, Resident Magis trate at Port Moresby, was recently ap pointed a member of the Legislative and Executive Councils of Papua.