EXPORT OF FROZEN PEAS
FIRST SHIPMENT WORTH £60,000 "The Press” Special Service ' NAPIER, December 16. A consignment of 200 tons of deep frozen peas worth £60.000, the first of its kind to be sent from tbe Dominion, will be shipped from Napier tomorrow. Future shipments will be extended to include other vegetables and fish and meat. Packed in dry ice, the peas will be carried by lorries from the canneries at Hastings, to the ship, where the packeted peas will be shot into the hold down a chute. “This is the forerunner of a tremendous trade, which will include hot only Australia, but Singapore and the Far East as well,” said Mr Leonard Bisley, managing director of the exporting firm. “New Zealand can produce the food in great quantities and has markets for it close at hand. We fully expect the first year’s trade to exceed £300,000.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28153, 17 December 1956, Page 11
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