Produce Co-Operatives

[?]Opes For Mangaia

Coffee and Canned Fruit For NZ

I NEW ZEALAND firm has offered I £5OO per ton for all available I Mangaia Island coffee. Negotia tes were made by Mr. Ronald fme, who has now returned to the land to reside.

The potential yield is unknown, it wild-growing trees cover large eas of the island. Mangaia coffee is last exported in any quantity ifore World War I, the 1906 yield ling 27,000 pounds.

Preparations of coffee beans by fe Mangaians in the past has been laborious and wasteful hand pre ss. Mi*. Syme has taken back th him a hand-operated pulper id a light husking machine which [procured during a recent visit

[England.

If the Mangainas show interest, [is hoped to organise a co erative at the end of the first is on when they will have learned B new system of processing.

A well-known Auckland firm is fo interested in importing canned Heapple pulp from Mangaia, also beapple juice and tomato puree, [e firm has supplied pulping and ice extracting machinery to Mr. me for experiment. Depending pays on the co-operation of the Ingaians, it is intended next year i can sliced pineapple and fruit lad made from bananas, passion lit, oranges, pawpaws, mangoes d pineapples.

First samples of pineapple pulp d juice should arrive in Auckland out October in one-gallon and ir-gallon cans. Further opera ns will depend on analytical and ifer reports. fhere have in the past been rious ventures of this nature in i Cooks but they have always led for one reason or another, equently a proposition appeared rth while but failed when pro ce prices jumped once the people ilised that the enterprising or niser had no choice but to pur ase their produce. a co-operative effort there is reason why the new venture auld not be a success, given table supervision. If it succeeds, ;re is little doubt that it will ye a favourable effect in influenc ; the organisation of similar co jratives elsewhere in the Cooks.

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Jiss Jane Lament, daughter of . and Mrs. N. Lament, of Suva, 5 become Fiji’s first Queen’s ide. Her certificate bears the yal Coat of Arms and the Queen’s nature. She joined the move nt five years ago and was one the Guides’ Overseas contingent the Coronation.

Prof. A. P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology at Sydney University, left on June 25 to attend a conference in Hawaii on “Race Relations in World Perspective,” sponsored by the Ford and Mclnerny Foundations. The conference will consider the nature of race and race relations, the role of race conflict in nationalistic movements, administrative policies for race minorities, effect of Christian missions on race relationships, and inter-racial marriage and racial integration.

H Mr. R. Davies, Officer for Islands Education in New Zealand, was touring the Cook Islands Lower Group in July. He had attended the Research Council meeting of the South Pacific Commission in Noumea.

H Mrs. Maria Henderson, of Raro tonga, went to New Zealand in July to attend the conference of the Country Women’s Association, branches of which have recently been established in the Cook Islands.

Following the Sun

From NZ

LEFT: Mr, J. B, Grove, [?]ead of the Island firm of [?], H. Grove and Sons, [?]ckland. with Miss D. [?]rove and sister, Mrs. H. [?]riestly, farewelled on the OFUA round trip in July Mrs. J. B. Grove. [?]IGHT: Mr. R. H. Jessup, [?]rmerly of Apia, with Miss Carruthers, Mrs. R. H. [?]hruthers, Miss M. Car [?]thers and Mrs. I. H. Car [?]thers also aboard TOFUA.