ORANGE SUPPLY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 13

ORANGE SUPPLY

SHIPMENTS FROM PITCAIRN BOAT LOST IN LOADING , Supplies of new season's oranges are close at hand and sufficient is in sight to appease the present demand, said a wholesale merchant to "The Post °PHc'airn Island growers of recent years have been aided considerably in finding a market for their/fruit by the frequent callings of steamers en 'route to New Zealand, and tomorrow morning over three hundred cases are I due to reach Wellington by rail from Auckland, having been landed there, over the weekend by the steamers Remuera and Tamaroa. The Limerick is due in Auckland on Friday with over 8000 cases of oranges from the Cook Islands, and will be followed closely by the Matua- with a much larger cargo from the same islands. . '. The hazards attendant on the loading of fruit in ports devoid of shipping facilities was shown in the loading of the Pitcairn oranges on the Remuera. One of the islanders' surf boats became engulfed in a large wave and was thrown back on to Young's Rock, the mishap resulting in the destruction of the boat and the loss of the fruit cargo. Loading operations on this occasion were carried out at night and | it was fortunate that no loss of life occurred. Tomorrow's arrivals of oranges from Pitcairn. Island would have been considerably larger but for the accident. I