MORE POTATOES SHIPPED
Potato shipments from Lyttelton last fortnight rose to 18.004 sacks, compared with 15.815 sacks the previous fortnight. Shipments to Auckland fell more than 2000 sacks, but exports to Fiji offset the reduction, and the West Coast of the North Island took nearly 2000 sacks more than in the previous fortnight. Timaru shipments in the 11 days to October 14 totalled 5020 sacks, compared with 6468 sacks in the previous three weeks. Including the latest Lyttelton figures, known South Island shipments to date total 513,101 sacks. The increase in the rate of shipment in the last fortnight has again carried the South Island total above the corresponding 1955 figure—about 490.000 sacks by mid-October. Details of Lyttelton shipments in the two weeks ended on Saturday. with figures for the year to date in parenthesis, aie as follows: — To Auckland 4910 sacks (109.153); Wellington 4358 sacks (74.540); Napier-Gisborne 3269 <63.463): West Coast, North Island 3264 (65.968 >: Fiji 2203 <3374); total 19,004 (321,489).
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28414, 22 October 1957, Page 17
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