AUSTRALIAN FRUIT
STRICTER SUPERVISION NECESSARY. LONDON, June 11. A deputation of the Australasian, section of the Chamber of Commerce and the Australasian Merchants’ Association, consisting of Messrs Tredwen, F. Moore, and I. Pearce, waited on Lord Devonport (chairman of the Port of London Austerity), urging quicker discharge of fruit and better supervision to prevent the rough handling and breakage of cases. The deputation pointed out that the fruit discharged at Southampton could be delivered in London quicker than if discharged at Tilbury. Lord Devonport promised to endeavour to have things placed on a better footing. He said tliat the construction of a motor road from Tilbury to London would prevent congestion. Ele believed that the Transport Ministry was in sympathy with the motor road proposal, but it wciSuld entail the removal of houses and the displacement of the population.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3614, 19 June 1923, Page 21
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139AUSTRALIAN FRUIT Otago Witness, Issue 3614, 19 June 1923, Page 21
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