CONDEMNED ORANGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13868, 30 September 1908, Page 6

CONDEMNED ORANGES.

1 SHIPMENT FROM AROTONGA - l [BY telegraph.— press association.] , , .■..'-, ■•:;,'" -'.'■./'. Wellington, Tuesday. V^fu|§ Two-thirds of a shipment of Karotonga , , oranges, which arrived hex* yesterday, via - j Auckland, had to be condemned owing to \ the presence of Mediterranean fruit fly. U", ! U I —-' ' ~.: ", ; : Auckland fruit brokers, when asked about \ jj this matter, ridiculed the suggestion - that |J ;: ;Y 1 the oranges had been condemned owing to ■ ; , 'ft the presence -of the Mediterranean fly. One 1 broker said; "We know that the Queens-■;-, ,§ land fly, which is an entirely different«(f : >'| thing, and will not live in Now Zealand, ■ I has been found in Rarotonga, and • owing C. ' J to the lateness of the season it is possib'* Rarotonga oranges may have been affected - I in greater degree than usual. The Tallin© . landed her Cook Island '■' fruit here last week without any fiy in fooled oranges he- t - I ing ; discovered, .. so that it is difficult 'H/Sll X'sir-M/g tlu- Wellington consignment was ; 1 infected** I should like (<> have «.en por- , 1 lion of that cargo kept tor tasting puf* r , ,; M poses, but, at any rate, the fly was ao**' ./J] the, MecUtcrrancan fly* i-hat'ti <cert&inj l ' |$j|