BANANA SHIPMENT
10.000 CASES DUE TO-DAY LARGE STATE CONSIGNMENT SPECIAL TRAINS FOR SOUTH [BT TELEGRAPH—OWN CORRESPONDENT] WELLEN'GTOX,' Sunday . The Union Steam Ship Company's motor-ship Matua is due at Auckland to-morrow from. Island ports with 10.000 cases of bananas for Wellington and the South Island. The shipment is under the control of the Internal Marketing Department. To expedite the delivery at Wellington of this large consignment of more than 400 tons of perishable good?, the Hallway Department has arranged for two special trains, one to leave Auckland on Wednesday afternoon or evening. and the second to leave on Thiirsday evening. As this shipment is the first large transaction of the Internal Marketing Department since taking over the control of banana imports, and the .first large consignment to come forward 6y rail, arrangements have been made fey the Railway Department for a series of photographs to be taken portraying the handling and distribution of the shipment at Wellington.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23015, 18 April 1938, Page 8
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