NELSON FRUIT FOR LONDON
DIRECT LOADING OF 50,000 CASES ON PORT HOBART The motor ship Port Hobart, the only vessel set down to take a direct shipment of fruit from Nelson this season, completed loading over 60,000 cases of apples on Saturday afternoon, and sailed. for Wellington in the evening. The quota for the direct loading was 48,0U0 cases, but it was found that more could be stored in the space available, and the total reached several hundred over the 50,000 mark. The Port Hobart will load a further quantity of fruit at Wellington and at Port Chalmers before leaving New Zealand later in the month. Her whole shipment is for London.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 May 1931, Page 4
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112NELSON FRUIT FOR LONDON Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 May 1931, Page 4
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