Dumped Cargo
BANANAS WORTH £4,000 GO OVERBOARD MAUI POMARE’S TROUBLES With 5,000 cases of bananas cooking in her hold the Government motor-ship M&ui Pomare had to heave-to and dump the cargo worth about £4,000 into the sea near Sunday Island. The result was that she arrived in Auckland yesterday with only about 200 cases of edible bananas and quantities of copra fungus and other cargo. Failure of some part of the cooling machinery, possibly the brine pumps, seems to have caused the bananas to become overheated. A few days from Apia, fruit at the bottom began to ferment, and soon the whole of the cargo was cooking. It had to be jettisoned because it would have become an immovable mass by the time Auckland was reached. The throwing overboard of the bananas took almost a day. None of the bananas was for Auckland. “The deterioration of the cargo is believed to be due to several contributory causes,” said Mr. S. J. Smith, secretary of the Cook Islands Department. An inquiry by experts into the cause of the damage is to be held to-day. Insurances are not available.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 437, 20 August 1928, Page 16
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187Dumped Cargo Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 437, 20 August 1928, Page 16
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