Delays to Fruit Cargoes
One shipment of fruit he knew of had gone back and forth across Cook Strait until in the finish “it had grown whiskers,” said Mr H. J. Chignell, of Nelson, at the conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation at Wellington yesterday. He was referring to the serious effect on fruit cargoes of shipping delays which, he understood, were mainly attributable to hold-ups in the discharge of vessels. At Mapua, near Nelson, growers made every effort to assist in loading vessels to facilitate their dispatch in spite of their preoccupation with seasonal activities, he said. On one occasion, by using all available men, a cargo had been loaded in five and a half hours. Discharge in Wellington had taken four to five days.— (P.A.)
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1947, Page 8
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