FRUIT FROM NIUE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1929, Page 13

FRUIT FROM NIUE

MAUI POMARE'S RUN

AMENDMENT PLEASES ISLANDERS

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHKISTCHTJRCH, This Day

; Among the arrivals by the Haui .Pomare yesterday wero Captain A. A. ■linckham, resident Commissioner and administrator at Niue Island, and Mrs. liuckham. Captain Luckham is on three months' holiday, and he expects -to return, to Niue in March.

- In an interview he stated that tho banana trade of tho island was making "wonderful strides, and tho growers ■were filling their quota .of spaco in the Government steamer Maui Pomare. More fruit was grown than could be exported, but this was a good fault, as it provided for emergencies. Last year the average net return to tho grower ■was 3s 8d per case. Tho Government's proposal to run tho Maui Pomare between Niuo and Apia to Lyttelton arid "■•Vellington only v.-ua heartily endorsed by the islanders, who would thus have the assurance of ten or eleven calls per year, with a consequent greater output on to a direct market. They jireferred a. staple price for fruit all tho year, as the native mind could not understand market fluctuations.