Oranges From Sunday
pp. 15-16 · Read in the full issue
Island?
FIVE officers of the Fiji Infantry Brigade Group recently returned to Fiji from New Zealand, after fur lough, in a very small schooner. They called at Sunday Island, in the Ker madecs, “and” (says Major M. Whatman, in a personal letter) “recent develop ments there include an orange-growing experiment by the NZ Government.”
This is interesting. There are times when New Zealand’s demand for oranges cannot be supplied from the Cook Islands.
Oranges cannot be grown in NZ: but, when the editor of the “PIM” was ashore on Sunday Island, many years ago, he was given there the finest orange he ever tasted. Many attempts have been made to colonise Sunday Island (on the direct route between Auckland and Tonga), but the absence of any port or sheltered anchorage has defeated the settlers.
A daughter was born to Captain and Mrs. E. Sutcliffe on October 28. “Ted”
Sutcliffe, up until the cessation of civil aviation in New Guinea, in January, 1942, was senior pilot of Mandated Airlines of New Guinea. At present he is Flight- Checking Officer for the Department of Civil Aviation at Parafield Aerodrome, South Australia.