Marketing
p. 26 · Read in the full issue
Mangaians Expect A Fruit
War Soon
From Our Own Correspondent MANGAIA, Cook, Islands. 11THEN local pineapple growers held out tt for £1 per case (instead of 13/-) it was rumoured that the November call of the Maui Pomare to Mangaia would be cancelled.
However, she arrived in due course al though the NZ Marketing Division would not raise the price.
Most of the pineapples were kept for the CIPA Fairmile which is to transport them to Rarotonga for trans-shipment to New Zealand where they will be marketed through private channels—or so we are told.
CIPA adherents on Mangaia believe that the big fruit “war” will begin next orange season and that the Association (or Society as it is now called) will take over from the IMD and established ex porters.
If the New Zealand government aban dons the IMD and leaves fruit importa tion and distribution to private enter prise the situation may be interesting here in the Islands.
NZ Delegation to Minister for
Marketing
THE president of the New Zealand Fruit and Produce Merchants’ Federation and members of the executive waited in a deputation on the Minister of Marketing. Mr. Holyoake, on January 19, with a request that the Government make an early decision as to whether it pro poses to imnlement its policy of free en terprise with regard to the importation and distribution of imported fruits, which mainly consist of oranges, mandarines pineapples and bananas.