SHIPMENT OF FRUIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 149, 26 June 1934, Page 11

SHIPMENT OF FRUIT.

NAPIER PORT ADVANTAGES. The advantages which the development of the Napier harbour would bring in regard to the shipment of fruit were dealt with briefly by the chairman of the Napier Harbour Board, Mr. Trevor M. Geddis, in addressing members of a party of Hastings Rotarians, which visited the harbour, states the "Napier Daily Telegraph." Tho exportable quantity of fruit leaving Hawke's Bay every year was stated by Mr. Geddis to be 300,000 cases. The charges on railing that quantity and shipping it through Wellington amounted to £15,337; the charges on shipping it through Napier by means of lighterage amounted to £10,300; while the charges which would be made if direct wharf loading were available at Napier would be £5500. This dieect wharf loading, at. Napier would bring about a saving of £4800 a year, as compared with lightering at Napier, or a saving of £9827 as compared with shipping through Wellington. Loading and shipping by lighterage through Napier would give a saving of £5037, as compared with shipping through Wellington. The erection of an overseas wharf at Napier would eliminate the lighterage and double handling, besides giving the growers a large saving, which would be distributed among business people ' generally, Mr. Geddis conrfjfSfted,