Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1951Vol. XXII, No. 3

Taro For Aucklanders

p. 87 · Read in the full issue

Page 8787

PROMINENTLY displayed in many Auckland fruit and vege table shops is Island-grown taro, at 1/- per pound.

This indicates some effort being made to cater for the several thousand Cook Islanders, Samoans and Niueans now resident in New Zealand. The price seems high, in comparison with various well subsidised NZ foodstuffs.

Most Auckland greengrocers are Chinese who probably will let the taro rot (as it will, after a while) rather than lower the price.

Pawpaws of modest size can be bought in Auckland for 3/6d and

4/6.

Ajs.

Mr. Angus MacDonald, head of the Apia agency firm of A. Mac- Donald Ltd., Western Samoa, who was in Sydney recently, returned to the Territory by air, via Fiji.

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