ORANGES CONDEMNED
AUCKLAND 30th Jgly. Of the shipment of oranges which ai 1 ' rived from Rarotonga by the Talune on Friday last no fewer than 400 cases were condemned by the authorities and ordered to be burned. The reason for this step wa-s the fact tnat the 400 cases mentioned were badly infected with fruit maggot. Two hundred and fifty cases have already been taken to the destructor to be burned', and the remainder of tho cases will be taken there to-day. This fruit is the first to be condemned this season.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1912, Page 3
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92ORANGES CONDEMNED Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1912, Page 3
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