"Pineapple Money" Delayed
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From Our Own Correspondent
Mangaia. Dec., 4.
THE pineapple crop for November was cut and consigned to NZ but im mediate payment has not been forth coming from the IMD. No payment, it appears, can be made until the fruit is sold in NZ.
Much disstisfaction is felt by planters that the IMD has not seen fit to dis burse at least a deposit that would en able local natives to purchase necessary goods, now in fair supply at the beach stores.
Since IMD took over the Cook Islands fruit markets, payments have all been made soon after departure of the steamer regardless of conditions in NZ. In the case of the pineapples, however, the old vexatious delay, inseparable from pre- IMD trading, has annoyed local shippers, who expected prompt payment.