Many Oranges Visualised
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Big orange shipments from the Cooks are visualised by Mr. Ross Walker (of Fruit Distributors Ltd., the firm marketing all citrus im ports in New Zealand) who toured the Cook Islands orchards in July.
He predicts that, subject to the ab sence of hurricanes, the Cooks should be exporting 163,000 cases per annum by 1960. Rarotonga alone this year exported 4,400 cases—the nost for 18 years. He urged use of he latest equipment for washing and trapping, so as to get the oranges ;o market in a more attractive con lition.
Mr. P. N. Nightingale, Who
las spent 22 years in Fiji in the colonial Service will shortly leave : he Colony with Mrs. Nightingale or Zanzibar where he will be financial Secretary. In Fiji he has ierved as District Commissioner in nany parts of the Colony and ecently has been a senior Secre tariat officer. At present he is acting Colonial Secretary.