Island Fruit Shipments
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From Our Own Correspondent Rarotonga, July 14, npHE July “Maui Pomare” lifted 13,183 X cases of -tomatoes and 318 cases of oranges from Rarotonga, 6,800 cases of oranges and 300 cases of tomatoes from Mangaia, and 620 cases of oranges from Atiu.
During loading at Mangaia one of the ship’s engineers sustained serious leg in juries. The vessel immediately returned to Rarotonga to bring the injured man to the hospital, and after picking up the Rarotonga fruit, returned to Mangaia to finish loading.
Captain C. H. V. Hodgess, who wears decorations gained in four years’ service in the Solomons, was in Sydney early in August, undergoing demobilisation. He hopes to return eventually to his plan tation in the British Solomons—but, like other Solomonites, he does not know when conditions will permit the resump tion of normal life there. He had two months in hospital and Mrs. Hodgess and he are now living quietly on the South Coast of NSW.