COOK ISLANDS FRUIT

Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1930, Page 8

COOK ISLANDS FRUIT

PROBLEMS OF CARRIAGE TO DOMINION. WELLINGTON, December 4. With a view to closer co-operation in the problems of the carriage of fruit from the Cook Islands to New Zealand, a meeting was held recently between representatives o! the Union Steam Ship Company’s management and the Government Departments interested. It was presided over bv the Minister for the Cook Islands, Sii Apirana Ngata. The losses that occur annually in this fruit on its arrival in New Zealand have I icon given particular attention for some time past. It is believed that technical knowledge in the possession of the Government, as a result of scientific research by the Cambridge Low-Temperance Research Council, and experience gained by the Now Zealand Fruit Control Board in the export of fruit should he of value in' the island fruit trade. Arrangements have therefore been made for .representatives of the Government and the Fruit Board and the Union Company to confer on the question of fruit carriage stowage, ventilation, etc., in an effort to give Cook Island fruit, the best conditions of carriage that are possible under the peculiar conditions of this trade.