More Oranges From Cook Islands
AUCKLAND, May 5. New Zealand will be getting more oranges from the Cook Islands this year, said Judge A. MeCarthy, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court in Raratonga," who arrived in the Maui Pomare this afternoon to spend four months' furlough in New Zealand. This year's CTop would amount to about 50,000. cases and it was hoped that most of it would be sent to New Zealand. . The greatest problem that the indus*Vry faced was lack -of shipping but it was being overcome. There was now a fairly regular f-reighter service through the islands to New Zealand and at the moinent the TJpion Company's Waitomo was loading in Rarotonga. Another vessel was expected shortly and some more later. The native growers were working hard and well aud the future of the orange industry seemed to* be bright. The market for pearl shell was also strong at the mqment, Judge MeCarthy said, and several sehooners were active. I Shell was selling for gbout £400 a ton. Most of it was going to the United States,
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1949, Page 3
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