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Banana Trade
AN Auckland land agent, Mr.
R. Richards, who has been livi on Norfolk Island for the past thi years, was in New Zealand in Augi trying to arrange with the Mark ing Division for the purchase Norfolk bananas at a payable pri( Mr. Richards points out that one time Norfolk shipped 2,0 cases of bananas per month to N< Zealand. A trial shipment, sent Wellington in 1948 on a Ho!
Shipping Co. vessel, arrived in go order but the Marketing Divisi pegged the retail price at an unps able level.
Mr. Richards is convinced that t public is prepared to pay the pri now asked. He says that the Ho Shipping Co. would again be p pared to supply the necessary sh ping connection. The NZNAC I also offered a special air freight r; on bananas if the trade is reopen* Norfolk islanders are interested replanting, provided that a marl is assured. It would take some th to re-establish the plantings.
A son was born to Dr. and IVI Brian Scott, of Rarotonga, August 24. Dr. Scott is Ch Medical Officer of Cook Islands.