REPORT REGARDED AS HIGHLY IMPROBABLE
(PA)' WELLINGTON, This Day. A statement made by passengers arriving at Auckland in the Maui Pomare, that oranges and mandarins were rotting underfoot in Raratonga, was highly improbable said the Parliamentary Unddr-Secretary to the Prime Minister, Mr A. G. Osborne, in a statement today. . . The orpnge season in Rarotonga ended in July and the last shipment in that month (1189 cases) was an unusually small one. On August 23, shipments of 37 cases of tangerines and five cases of limes were made. In regard to the statement that the vessel brought 3250 cases of bananas, Mr Osborne said that the original estimates for bananas was 8000 cases, but revised estimates received later gave the number as 4500 cases and the shipment actually loaded was 5000 cases. ■
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1947, Page 4
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