Food For N. Zealand
p. 13 · Read in the full issue
Diverse Cargo From Cook Is.
Rarotonga, Oct. 16.
A DIVERSE shipment of produce left Rarotonga recently for the New Zealand market. Exports included 2,000 bags of Kumaras —to help allay the NZ potato shortage 3,600 cases of bananas, over 4,000 boxes of tomatoes, as well as orange juice, arrowroot, taro, coconuts, copra and shell necklaces.
Although it seemed, at first, that the vessel could not be filled, it proved necessary, in the end, to cut down the quantities of taro, etc., which came forward.
Although no oranges (which usually form the bulk of Cook Islands cargoes) will now be available until next April, it is hoped that this shipment to capacity of other produce will encourage the New Zealand authorities to provide a steamer now and then.