Central Otago Apricots To Be Flown To America

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27291, 18 January 1950, Page 4

Central Otago Apricots To Be Flown To America

Several cases of Central Otago apricots will be flown to the United States next week. They will be dear apricots when they arrive in America because the freight charge across the Pacific alone will, it is understood, amount to something like 14s per lb. The consignment, however, is not destined to provide dessert for some American millionaire family, although this might possibly be the fate of the apricots eventually.

The order for the apricots was placed with the well-known Roxburgh orchardists, George Brothers, by an American manufacturing firm which is placing on the market a machine for removing the stones from apricots. The manufacturers are anxious to give their machine a trial run before the stone-fruit season begins in America, 'and for this trial, of course, apricots are required.

When approached by the Daily Times last night, Mr John George explained that the cases of apricots would be despatched from Roxburgh on Monday morning. They would be loaded into an aircraft at the Taieri and flown to Auckland in time to catch the transpacific aircraft leaving Auckland on Monday night. The apricots should arrive in San Francisco on Thursday.