CHERRIES BY PLANE
FREIGHT FROM BLENHEIM (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A further consignment of cherries, grown in the Marlborough district and packed in Blenheim yesterday morning for sale on the Auckland market to-day, was brought to Wellington by airliner yesterday. This was the third occasion within a week that a commercial airliner has 'been used in New Zealand for the exclusive transportation of freight. The fruit left Blenheim shortly after noon and was landed at Rongotai in time far a connection to be made with the 3 p.m, express-for Auckland. The aircraft chartered for the flight wa: one of the Cook Strait Airways’ D.H. Dragon Rapides ■which is engaged .: the mail and passenger service between Wellington, Blenheim ahd Nelson.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19825, 30 December 1938, Page 14
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