GRAPES UNLOADED AT WELLINGTON
WATERSIDERS AGREE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 20. The first shipment of South African fresh grapes to reach New Zealand has arrived in the Dominion Monarch, and because of special circumstances the executive committee of the Wellington Waterside Workers’ Union has agreed to their being unloaded along with some South African oranges. The importer, Mr H. E. Radley, Managing director of Radley Brothers, Ltd., Christchurch, said to-night that it was not intended to import South African grapes to compete with grapes grown in New Zealand. They would be brought in, subject to Government permission, only in mid-June and July, when the locally-grown supply was e.ither extremely limited or unavailable. The grapes would be sold in New Zealand at a price which would permit them to reach the public ht no more than 4s per lb. The grapes in the present shipment total 2000 cases, each of 3.01 b, and there are 100 cases, each of 651 b, of oranges. Because of the waterfront situation the South Island consignment would be flown to Christchurch. All the grapes for the North Island, except a token lot for Auckland, would be marketed from Hastings and Palmers' ton North, south.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 210, 21 June 1950, Page 7
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