Room For Improvement in Fiji Banana Packs

Fiji Banana Packs

ALTHOUGH Fijian bananas can be of good quality, packing and cases very often were not. (See June PIM, page 46).

This was the opinion of Mr. C. R.

Vasey, Produce Inspector of the Fiji Department of Agriculture, who re cently made a tour of New Zea land banana distributing points at the invitation of the NZ Fruit Dis tributers Ltd.

Fiji cases fall to pieces, scatter ing fruit over ships’ holds and trucks. Case breakages are higher than with cases from other areas — notably Samoa. Samoan fruit, re ported Mr. Vasey, are graded for size and better packed than Fijian lines. Fiji cases often contained thin scabby fruit in the centre of cases.