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PARTY OF 25 MARINES ON TOFUA BANANA SHIPMENT ARRIVES When the Tofua arrived at Auckland last evening, a party of 25 marines who remained in Samoa after the departure of H.M.S. Dunedin, rejoined their cruiser. The officers with the party were Captain M. Hardy-Spicer, R.M., and Lieutenant G. Gladstone, R.N. The men who returned were in good health after their sojourn of two months in Samoa, but one had been left behind on account of illness. The Tofua, which arrived in the Waitemata at about 6 o’clock last evening, carried an unusually small shipment of Fijian bananas. The total of 3,800 cases is the smallest since 1910. The normal shipment for this time of the year is about 20,000 cases, but the hurricane in the Islands in December caused immense havoc and a consequent drop in fruit production. Bananas are in short supply in Auckland, but arrangements are being made to have 11,000 cases shipped from Samoa by the Union Company’s Waipahi early in May.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 948, 15 April 1930, Page 16
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168BACK FROM SAMOA Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 948, 15 April 1930, Page 16
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