SHIPMENT OF ORANGES
LARGE NUMBER DESTROYED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 26. . Now is the height of the Island orange season, and the Maunganui, which arrived at Wellington to-day from San Francisco, via Papeete and Rarotonga, brought about 17,000 cases of fruit, chiefly oranges, from Rarotonga. A large number of oranges were landed in very pulpy condition and will be destroyed. A big percentage of the oranges, it is.undiV',stood, had been packed upwards of 10 days before they were loaded, and this is the main reason for the deterioration. Additional factors were the wet weather experienced recently in the Cook Islands and the fact that many of the plantation trees are getting old and have not been pruned properly. ~
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21990, 27 June 1933, Page 8
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