BETTER CARRIAGE OF FRUIT

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1930, Page 9

BETTER CARRIAGE OF FRUIT

COOK ISLANDS TRADE PROBLEMS. ' Arrangement for conference • -.By Teleyraph.—Press Association. \ Wellington, Last Nighta "With?a view to,closer ..co-operation in .. problems of the carriage of fruit from ' .Cook..lslands to New Zealand a meeting was 'lield recently between representatives of the Union Steam Ship Company’s management and the Government departments interested. Sir Apirana l ’ Ngafa/ Minister fork the Cook Islands,, presided. ■ 7 ’'■ : ■ The losses that occur annually in this fruit on arrival in New Zealand have 'been given particular attention for some time., It is believed the technical knowledge in. the-.possession; of the Govern-■ ■menf ’’as a result of scientific research by the Cambridge low-temperature research council and.the experience gajried ■by the New Zealand Fruit Control Board in the export of fruit should 'be of t'alije in the island fi'uit .trade./ Arrangements have therefore been made for' representatives of th" Gov-: erhnients, the Union Compafiy and the 'Fruit-.Board to confer on the question of fruit carriage, stowage and veutila- • tion in an effort to give Cook Islands, fruit the best conditions /of carriage . ' that*-; are - possible under' the peculiar '■/, conditions of this trade. ■