CENTRAL FRUIT RECORD
99 TONS FROM ROXBURGH APRIMTB AMD PEACHES FOR THE NORTH [From Ouk Own Reporter.] ROXBURGH. January HI. Monday was a record day for the despatch of fruit from Roxburgh, ninety-nine tons being railed from the station. The previous highest figures were .-—Sixty-live tons, on January 2(5; and sixty-two tons, on January 25. The record for the district is 108 tons from Miller's Flat, one day in 1 January. 1925, but that was the terminus of the railway, and handled all the limit from tin whole district.
The packing shed at Roxburgh station is now working twenty-four hours daily, paying a Hat rate of Is (id an hour, enabling packers to earn ISs for a twelve-hour shift, seven days a week.
The apricots are a particularly heavy crop, probably owing to the rest given to the trees last season, w hen untimely frosts ruined the crop. The bulk of the peaches and apricots is consigned to the North Island, principally to Wellington, which is regarded as a. more remunerative market than Dunedin, as also are Christchurch and Invcicaigill. The bulk of the Dunedin consignments is to the two large preserving companies in that town. The weather continues hot and dry, which favors fruit picking and harvesting, but owners of stock would welcome the rain so much needed by the high country and the low land not under irrigation.
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Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 3
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230CENTRAL FRUIT RECORD Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 3
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