Sunday Island Oranges
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For Nz Market
TWELVE native labourers to tend the recently planted orange plantations on Sunday Island, in the Kermadec group, were brought from Niue Island by the NZ Government motor-vessel Maui Pomare, which called at the Kermadecs late in October. The development of the new industry on an island which has never been successfully colonised since its discovery in 1793 is expected to give this little-known New 4 Zealand dependency a prosperous economic future within ten years.
When a Public Works Department party went to Sunday Island in 1937 to set up a meteorological and radio station they found about 20 orange trees planted by early settlers. They were producing excellent fruit, although uncared for. The department has since planted several hundred trees which will begin bearing soon.
As the island is only 600 miles north east of New Zealand, which annexed it in 1887, it is hoped it will provide a valuable addition to the Dominion’s sources of
orange supplies.-
NZ Herald.