DEAR FRUIT
ARE FREIGHT CHARGES RESPONSIBLE?
“People in New Zealand have to pay too much for Australian fruit,” said a visitor from Sydney yesterday. I find that the cost of fruit here is governed, to some extent at least, by the freight charges. The charge for freight on every case of oranges and mandarins from Sydney to Wellington is about 2s. 9d„ whereas the charge some years ago was S)d. or Is. per case. “The charge is also very heavy on the Island fruit that comes to Wellington. It is strange, though none the less true, that Nelson people can send a hundred cases of apple? to London, in cool store, as cheaply as a hundred cases of bananas can be brought to Wellington from Rarotonga—rm deck. With the bananas there is no attention needed, but all the wav to London the engineers have to keep a careful watch on the temperatures ot the cool stores to prevent any great variation.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 266, 6 August 1929, Page 7
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161DEAR FRUIT Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 266, 6 August 1929, Page 7
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