THE MAITAI FROM 'FRISCO.
. ISLAND FRUIT LEFT. i ... ■ i v ; ; [it TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] . Wellington, Saturday. The steamer Maitai arrived two days late from San Francisco, owing, it is said, to bad coal. She was two days late in arriving at Raiotonga on the return journey, and owing to rain and a heavy sea being experienced whilst in the roadstead there ' February. 25 the steamer lefVfor "Wei-, ■ .liegten. leaving three-fifths of the fruit . rsjgo waiting to, be shipped on the wharf, t-hoagh it had been signed for as received by, the Union Company's officials. It is goiated cut by the local officials that. ' tactically the whole of the fruit left belind'will be lost, as there was no other iwafc due to bring it along. They point sat that the service was instituted largely to d*veli-v, the fruit trade of the Cook Group,- but instead of doing that the trade it being killed by the boat arriving two ays late, and then hurrying off because «f a tropical downpour, which" is soon arer. There was even mention in the frail markets of the fruit firms uniting to purchase a steamer for employment be?,Jf«ea the islands and Wellington. m: - :
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14932, 4 March 1912, Page 7
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