Champion Gardener
p. 68 · Read in the full issue
Fiji has been reprimanded by New Zealand banana-importing interests for three times failing in January to meet the export quotas.
The Colony was short by 2,000 cases of its 15,000-case quota on two voyages of the Karamu, and extra fruit offering at Apia and Nukualofa was refused by Tofua, the ship then not being filled by the Fijian
producers. Reasons given in Fiji are: floods associated with the January near-hurricane reducing the crop—and a prolonged holi day spirit which delayed packing in the Fijian villages, H Mrs. J. Dharam Dass recently re turned to Suva on completion of training as a nurse at Adelaide, SA.
Mrs. C. T. Yarrow (above) and her husband, are grand championship winners in the Garden Show held recently at Baroko, Port Moresby.