Taking The Temperature

Of Travelling Bananas

Anew Zealand scientist on the staff of the industrial laboratories of the DSIR re cently had the interesting task of nursing a consignment of bananas on an all-night train trip from Auckland to Palmerston North.

Temperatures were taken at regular intervals to see whether the patients were becoming too cold as the train climbed through the high country in the central part of the island.

Cause of the investigation was a theory that bananas are suffering in quality on the rail trip south from Auckland through being per mitted to get too cold.

The finding was contrary to the theory. But some shipments of bananas are still arriving inland in poor condition. tf Pastor Ken Gray and family, SDA Missionaries in Papua, were on furlough in Australia in October.