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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19285, 14 April 1928, Page 16

The voyages of mail steamers like the Aorangi from Auckland to Honolulu and Vancouver are coming to mean something more than the mere transport of passengers and mail matter (states the "New Zealand Herald"). In the holds of the great motor-ship, Wihich sailed for Vancouver on Wednesday, is stored another substantial consignment of orchard and dairy produce. While this week's consignments break no records, they are substantial and indicate the solidity of a growing trade with the Central Pacific, British Columbia, and the East. Of the 14,323 boxes of butter placed on board at Auckland, 1408 are for Honolulu, which has a strong preference for the Dominion product, 12,215 boxes for Vancouver, 400 for Shanghai, and a further 300 for Kobe and Yokohama. There were also 425 crates of cheese for Vancouver. Eastern consignments will be transhipped from Vancouver. In the Californian "off'' season for fruit Honolulu looks to New Zealand for a large part of its apple supplies, and 3000 cases shipped by private firms will be taken by the Aorangi. Throughout the balance of this month, and in May, further shipments of .Auckland apples will go forward to this quarter.