CARGO FAULTILY STACKED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19978, 1 July 1939, Page 13

CARGO FAULTILY STACKED

ORANGE SHIPMENT 2000 CASES AFFECTED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Faulty Stacking of about 2000 of the 19,291 cases of oranges brought to Auckland from the Islands on Thursday by the Matua, 'caused considerable difficulty on the waterfront yesterday. When the time came to forward the fruit to their destinations, it was discovered that this section of the cargo had been stacked without regard to the classification followed and the additional cost had to be met by requesting the forwarding agents acting for the Internal Marketing Department, to reclassify the cases when they came to handle them.

The practice followed is that the fruiit should be separated first into groups corresponding with the islands from which they were despatched, and also into secondary groups corresponding with the number of fruit in each case. Suitable markings indicating the island and the number of fruit are placed on every case, .but these were overlooked when about 2000 cases were being Slacked. In addition, the fruit is customarily sold according to the number of oranges in the cases, so that before the 2000 cases could be handled for sale or delivery south, they had to be completely reclassified. This took much extra time and also it was stated entailed substantial extra expense.