AUSTRALIAN ORANGES
NEARLY 12,000 CASES RELIEF OF SHORTAGE (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The largest, single shipment of South Australian oranges to be brought to Auckland arrived from Sydney by the Wanganella yesterday. The consignment consisted of nearly 12,C00 cases, of which 10,000 are for Auckland and the remainder for the south. A permit was obtained from, the Government to increase the number of cases by 4000, following the mishap to the motor-ship Matua, which resulted in 10,000 cases being left behind at Cook Islands. About half of the shipment was stowed in the holds, and the rest wag stacked! on deck. The consignment will relieve the .acute shortage of oranges that has existed through the mishap to the Matua.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 7 October 1936, Page 5
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