SPECIAL FRUIT TRAIN
BANANAS FOR WELLINGTON DISCHARGE AT AUCKLAND (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A special goods train will leave Auckland at 6 o'clock to-night with a consignment "of bananas, part of the cargo brought from the islands by the Matua. The uncertainty of discharge at Wellington owing to the waterfront dispute prompted the cancellation of her call there. Under the direction of the Internal Marketing Department, the cases of bananas are being removed by lorry to the station. The number of cases to go south depends upon the speed of discharge at the wharf, but it is believed that the train will be carrying a full quota of fruit. It is expected that some will 'be transhipped to the South Island.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 7
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123SPECIAL FRUIT TRAIN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 7
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