RAROTONGA FRUIT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 10, 5 October 1937, Page 6

RAROTONGA FRUIT

•I'leas Aisociation.)

'-Islands a Rich OrcharcT \ should be developed %

(By i'olearapli-

AUCKLAND, Last Night. A bright outlook for the future of tho Government fruit-control system at Raro tonga and the belief that its limits will soon be extended to embrace fruit other than Ofanges are held by Mr D. G. Ball, of the Education Department, Wellington, who returned by the Matua to-day after a two-months inspection oi Cook Islands schoals. - "I will say, howeverf" added Mr Ball; "that the islands oranges trade definitely needs better shippiug facilities. In the outer islands of the group I drove over. oranges because there was no adequate transport of them." He added that the islands were a rich orchard which ought to be fully developed. Under the guidance of the Resident CommissiOiler, Mr S. I. Smith, the Agricultural Department had been stiffened up, and a trained fruit expert had been brought from America. Mr Ball said that, although it was four years since a departmental schools inspection had been made, he was very pleased with the conditions, especially the new syllabus introduced 18 months ago; The main idea was to keep intact lxative culture. Stress was.laid on the natiye language, crafts and songs^