EXPORT OF FRUIT
A NOVEL EXPERIMENT OCEAN TESTS ON LAND LONDON, Oct. 28. Britain’s latest rural eccentricity is a model ship's hold, which is on the point of completion at East Mailing, .in Kent. It will be stranded in mid-conn-try to allow of the latest scientific tests for the redaction of wastage in, fruit during the voyage from the Empire’s distant orchards to Covent Garden. There are no other means of persuading the quiet Kentish villagers in respect of the imitation of the motion ot the sea but to produce it in the building, and they will, in every other way possible, be tricked into belieying they are en route from, say, New Zealand. The model bold will really bo part of the Cambridge low temperature research station. The scheme is fina-n----r-inllv supported by the Empire Marketing Board.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17095, 30 October 1929, Page 7
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138EXPORT OF FRUIT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17095, 30 October 1929, Page 7
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