New Zealand’s latest export venture trundled its way to Lyttelton yesterday under its own steam, to be shipped to Australia in the Union Lyttelton for a series of experimental trials. The contrivance, a grape harvester built by Peco,
Ltd, of Christchurch, is expected to sell for about half the price of its main rival, an American harvester. Peco’s managing director (Mr S. A. Goldsmith) said the company was aiming at the Australian market,
which was about 500 times the size of the New Zealand market. However, Peco would await the result of trials in South Australian vineyards before it tried to market the harvester, he said. About 90 per cent of
the harvester was made in New Zealand, and should cost about $40,000, compared with about $70,000 for its American counterpart, about six of which were working in New Zealand vineyards, said Mr Goldsmith.
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