ORANGE SUPPLY.
EMBARGO LIFTED.
IMPORTS FROM AUSTRALIA. *
NORFOLK ISLANO CROP
Special permission having been given by the Government for the importation of Australian oranges, a plentiful supply is assured for at least a few weeks to come. Large quantities of Island oranges of excellent quality are at present on the Auckland market and are selling at cheap rates, but one Targe shipment of South Australian oranges has already been discharged from the steamer Waitaki at South Island ports and at Wellington, as supplies from the Islands had already run low. Instead of the usual 12,000 or 13,000 cases of oranges arriving at' Wellington from Rarotonga in July, the quantity will be no more, it is expected, than 5000 cases, owing to the destruction of tho Cook Islands plantations by the hurricane of a few months
A small shipment of Californian oranges arrived by the Monterey to-day, while about 80(H) cases of South Australian oranges and mandarins will arrive by the Wanganella on Monday, this being the first direct shipment of Australian citrus fruit to Auckland this
season. The whole of Norfolk Island's present crop of oranges, amounting to about 2000 cases, will be lifted by the Union Company's steamer Kairanga, which left Sydney last week, and is due at Auckland next Tuesday or Wednesday. For the purposes of the embargo which the Government placed oil Australian citrus fruit in December, 1932, Norfolk Island has been considered to be a part of Australia, and no oranges have been imported from there since that date, but the eiebargo has been lifted for this season, owing to the shortage of oranges resuUhg from the destruction of tiie Cook Island plantations.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 163, 12 July 1935, Page 9
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