Fiji Banana Shipments
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Hit By Nz Watersiders' Strike
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. March 8.
SHIPMENT of bananas from Fiji was held up in early March owing to the prolonged watersiders’ strike in New Zealand. The fate of other bananas shipped by the Matua is unknown —presumably they were not unloaded in Auckland.
About 14,000 cases which should have been shipped by the Sierra, on March 6, were held back and bananas were selling locally at 2/- per bunch. On March 7, Mr. A. B. Ackland and Mr. L. F. Garnett flew to Auckland to discuss the whole matter with importers and the New Zealand authorities.
The Institut Francais d'Oceanie, at tached to the Office de la Racherche Scientifique Outre-Mer, has its head quarters at Anse Vata, Noumea where work was started in 1948. Six laboratories have been established and research is carried out under the following heads: Ecology, biological oceanography, phyto pathology, entomology, ethnology, geo physics and forestry.