MORE ORANGES FOR N.Z.
GOOD CROP IN COOK ISLANDS (New Zealand Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 5. New Zealand will be getting more oranges from the Cook Islands this year, said Judge A. McCarthy, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court in Rarotonga, who arrived in the Maui Pomare this afternoon to spend four months’ furlough in New Zealand. This year’s crop would amount to about 50,000 cases, and it was hoped that most of it would be sent to New Zealand. The greatest problem the industry faced was the lack of shipping, but it was being overcome. There was now a fairly regular freighter service through the islands to New Zealand, and at the moment the Union Company's Waitomo was loading in Rarotonga. Another vessel was expected shortly, and some more later. The first crops of the island’s navel and Valencia oranges had been picked, said Judge McCarthy. One of his friends had a consignment of about 30 cases on the Waitomo. Native growers were working hard and well, and the future of the orange industry seemed to be bright. The market for pearl shell was also strong at present. Judge McCarthy said, and several schooners were active. Shell was selling for about £4OO a ton. Most of it went to the United States.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25796, 6 May 1949, Page 9
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