Wanted—A Full-Sized
pp. 48-49 · Read in the full issue
Onion
From Our Own Correspondent
Mangaia, Dec., 4.
THE onions grown in the Cook Islands are unusually mild in flavour, and they only attain spring onion size at full maturity. The big English onion will not grow, for some reason, in local soil; and Luther Burbank being dead, and Dr. Geo. Washington Carver too far away, though living, to be interested in this urgent Cl problem, no improvement in local stew is possible, unless one imports the vegetable from New Zealand, at a good price.
A year or two ago, “PIM” mentioned the successful acclimatisation in Tahiti of the gaint Bermuda onion. This may be what we need! The Bermuda item at tains large size, but can be easily grown in tropic soil. Will Mr. Hershon of Papeete please tell us more of his ex periments?
His Excellency M. Haumant, Governor of Tahiti and French Oceania, and Mad ame Haumant, were guests of the Cook Islands Administration for two days in mid-January, when they stopped there en route to Canberra. The NZ Rarotonga mail plane made a special run to Bora- Bora to pick up the French Party.
This tablet is embedded in the wall of the Aeradio Station (shown on page 45) which the NZ Government has built on a headland of the Tamaki Estuary, Auckland. The new station is called the Musick Point Aeradio Station in memory of Captain Edwin Musick and his six companions, who perished in the Samoan Clipper on the first Pan American flight between USA and New Zealand in 1938. —Photos by White’s Aviation.
See photograph, page 44.