For Fourpence
p. 58 · Read in the full issue
Cook Island Pineapples
From Our Own Correspondent
Mangaia, Nov. 21.
BY the time this appears in print the first shipment of Cl pineapples will be on sale in New Zealand. These are Mangaia’s only end-of-year income, and 4/- a case is what we get for them.
It is hardly likely to produce an extrava gant Christmas, assuming that the pine apple-money lasts till then. (Copra money has already been spent.) The problem of living a reasonably civilised and Europeanised life, and find ing the cash for our numerous expenses, is always with us. There were only two orange-steamers this year and income is still exceeded by “outgo.”
There is reason to suspect that 1947 will be a year of great political activity in the Lower Cooks.
Suva’s total rainfall for 1946 was 121 6 inches. There were 223 wet days. At Laucala Bay a few miles distant, al though there were 222 wet days, the rain lall for the year was only 97.83 inches.
Suva’s wettest day was February 26, when 7.51 inches fell.
Residential tax is once again due in Fiji—although residents have ‘got until June 30 to pay it. A warning was re cently issued to Tongans living in the Colony that they must register for resi dential tax after they have been in Fiji for six months.