The possibility of developing a traae in citrus fruit between South Africa and New Zealand is being investigated The keeping qualities of oranges on the long sea journey were tested with a trial shipment of 20 cases which arrived at Wellington on the Dominion Monarch on Monday. The senior entomologist, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dr. W Cottier, who had charge of the oranges on the voyage, said thai whether they could be succe S fu *J } i marketed in New Zealand would no. be known till they had been kept ashore for about a fortnight. If it was found that fruit kept successfully, the economics of the Question would have to be gone into. —
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25713, 27 January 1949, Page 3
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