Chch shed for Hong Kong

Press, 16 July 1980, Page 19

Chch shed for Hong Kong

A Christchurch company’s first export order, a dangerous-goods shed, will be shipped, contents and all, to Hong Kong. The concrete storage shed, costing about $750, is the first of two export orders for M. J. McKendry, Ltd. The design is a standard New Zealand model of 9.4 cu. m but wit*- extra air vents to cope with Hong Kong’s warmer climate. A rubber-roofing firm, Shelter Engineering, Ltd, owned by Dunlop New Zealand, Ltd, has ordered the sheds with 50mm-thick concrete walls to store •paint and inflammable goods. The manager of the

company’s Christchurch branch, Mr M. J. Rayner, said the shed was not available in Hong Kong and could be made cheaper in New Zealand. “The shed is made very well here and to the specifications our Hong Kong people call for,” he said. The shed will pay its own way, doubling as a container for its own cargo of inflammable goods and saving the company money in freight costs. “It’s pointless to send it over empty,” said Mr Rayner. Lashed to the ships’s deck the shed would meet the strict conditions for transporting , dangerous goods.