An Easy Way to Peel and Core Pineapples

Throughout the Islands, small Co-operative Societies are springing up. In New Guinea they have already become Big Business with very considerable capital. All of them are on the look-out for possible small industries. In the Cook Islands, where a Co-operative Officer has just been appointed, there seem to be

possibilities in a small pineapple pulping and canning industry based on Mangaia and some other islands.

Mr. Ronald Syme, who has lately been at Mangaia exploring these possibilities, found that one of his biggest prob lems was to locate a reasonably inexpensive machine for peeling and coring pineapples.

Most machines are much too expensive and elaborate for the small producer.

Mr. Syme finally con

tacted an engineer in England and explained his problem. The result was the machine shown herewith.

So successful has it proved that the engineer has now patented the device. Pineapples are peeled and cored in a single downstroke of

the handle—lo per minute is easy going, and a good man might process twice that number.

Hand peeling takes U minutes per pineapple, plus more time for removing the core. The machine is adjustable by the replacement of various sired cylindrical cutters from 31 in. down to in. It is not a thing for children

to play with, but it is a highly efficient machine for the small cannery, and anyone seeking such a machine should contact the engineer: Roy Holmes, Esq., C/o Gee, Walker & Slater, Ltd , Severn Works, Mansfield Road, Derby, England.