WASTE IN ORANGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23032, 9 May 1938, Page 10

WASTE IN ORANGES

RAROTONGAN FRUIT WELLINGTON CONSIGNMENT [bt telegraph—ows coirespomjeittJ WELLINGTON. Saturday Part of a cargo „of oranges and bananas consigned t<i|the Internal Marketing Department arrived at Wellington yesterday by special goods train from Auckland and some of the orange# " were found to show signs of waste; The shipment arrived at Auckland by the Matua on-Thursday. It is difficult to say how much of the .Wellington t fruit is affected. "Wellington's proportion; of the fin# shipment of island oranges which, were landed at Auckland on Thursday last by the Matua arrived her© late yes* terday afternoon by train," said Mr. J. E. Thomas, fruit officer for the Internal Marketing Department. "The consignment was comprised of about 4000 cases of Rarotongan oranges and 3 approximately 1000 cases of bananas. "Although the Rarotongan oranges showed signs of waste,' due,' it is understood, to unfavourable seasonal opjiai" tions at the island this season," the/fnttt was sold in Wellington fruit markets this morning in the original cases, the priees ranging from 7s 6d to 12s : per bushel and a half case according counts, and retailers are already ailing these oranges at considerably duoed prices as a result, 1