Record Shipment of Fiji
p. 155 · Read in the full issue
Bananas
rpHE Karamu left Suva on Decem- X ber 22 with a record cargo of bananas for Wellington. Officers of the Fiji Department of Agricul ture, supervising the shipment (22,090 cases) believe that it can be bettered. Given the incentive, more freedom from exacting communal duties, more supervision and a better appreciation of the necessity for better weed control and spraying to improve the quality of the fruit, the Fijians should go on to greater heights of production.
If the Fijian “wharfies” took credit to themselves as the last case swung into the hold, one does not blame them—they gave the lie to some who said, ‘“lt can’t de done.’’ Work ing in temperatures said by old timers to be the hottest in years, they worked cheerfully at short notice.
Six million bananas at one “go” should be appreciated in NZ.