A REVIVED RACE.
PROGRESS IN COOK ISLANDS. TRADE NEEDS EXPANSION. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 24. The Resident Commissioner for the Cook Islands (Mr J. J. Smith) arrived to-day on an official visit to Wellington, whither he proceeds to-day. He returns to the Islands by the next trip of the Matua. Mr Smith said no greater tribute could be paid to New Zealand’s administration than to state that, whereas a few decades ago the Cook Islanders were regarded as a dying race, last year’s census disclosed that not less than 30.8 per cent, of the people were under the age of 10 years and 63 per cent, under the age of 20. The economic conditions arising from this rapid increase in population had rendered it imperative that the trade of the territory should be correspondingly expanded, and to this end Government control of the orange industry had been a step of the greatest importance to the territory. The greatest obstacle, however, was the inadequacy of the shipping facilities. Last year many more cases of oranges tvere wasted than were shipped, and apprehension was expressed that the same position might arise during the coming export season.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 6
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195A REVIVED RACE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 6
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