COOK ISLANDS FRUIT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 441, 5 December 1930, Page 7

COOK ISLANDS FRUIT

HEAVY LOSSES IN TRANSIT EFFORTS AT IMPROVEMENT [Per Prise Association.J WELLINGTON, Dec. 4. With a view to closer co-operation in the problem of the carriage of fruit from the Cook Islands to New Zealand, a meeting was held recently between representatives of the Union Steam Ship Company’s management and tho Government departments interested, presided over by the Minister of the Cook Islands (Sir ;\pirana Ngata). Tho losses that occur annually in this fruit on arrival in New Zealand have been given particular attention for some time past. It is believed that technical knowledge in the possession of the Government, as a result of scientific research by the Cambridge Low Temperature Research Council, and tho experience gained by the New Zealand Fruit Control Board in tho export of fruit, should be of value to the Island fruit trade. Arrangements, therefore, have been made for representatives of tho Government, the Union Company ami the Fruit Control Board to confer on the question of fruit carriage, stowage and ventilation, etc., in an effort to give the Cook Islands fruit the best conditions of carriage that are possible under the peculiar conditions of this trade.