COCOA CULTIVATION.
« COOK ISI__JvDS. | (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) j WELLINGTON, this day.. Colonel Gudgeon, Eesident Commis- i sioner of the Cook Islands, expresses in- j teresting views regarding tlie (.range j trade with this colony in his annual | neport. He says that 76,030 cases of oranges were exported last year, but this number could have been increased a third had there been a market. As matters now stand, the only persons benefited are Auckland middle-men and the Union Company, the natives frequently receiving a debit note for all their trouble. Colonel Gudgeon concludes: " I am of opinion that it would be in the interest of the whole group that prices should continue to be so bad as to discourage I the ficade altogether. These Islands are I the' home of cocoa palm, and if the i natives .could be brought to see their interests lay in the systematic planting | and ; culture of these valuable trees they would soon be wealthy men. Generally .speaking, the islands are twice as well I off as they were five years ago." |
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 225, 20 September 1906, Page 2
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