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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1952Vol. XXIII, No. 5

Cook Is. Fruit Wastage

p. 69 · Read in the full issue

i example of how a large cool store ■he Cook Islands could mean a great to the economy of the fruit pro ng islands of the Lower Group, was onstrated in November, angaia was allotted space in the i Pomare for 5,000 cases of pine es for shipment to NZ—another 2,000 s were thrown to the pigs, en had the Maui Pomare been able :arry them, the crop ripened before arrival and these 2.000 cases were - for shipment. ven satisfactory inter-island shipping ces, this fruit could all be conveyed i central cool store at Rarotonga, 5 to be shipped at the convenience be vessel from NZ.