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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13707, 23 September 1908, Page 5

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THE FRUJT TRADE. P«r Press Association. '■.WELI-bffiT-OX, Sept. 22 A conference of fruitbrokers ww held todav, Ji**oint»ons were passed de siding that henceforth the fruitbrokers of New Zi'iiknd intend to iitsssi on the jwymeut of all duinss for pillaging of fruit carried by .shipping coittpank*>; that shipping companies be asked to discontinue discharging fruit in slings: that the com panic* be held iuble for fruit *hort landed or over carried from the original meaner wiien delivered by the later summer in a depreciated condition, ami that the?, »t?»n tioti of the Union Company b-> directed t<» the fact that better facilities fihould b provided for the transhipment* of fruit »t Auckland. It w.'j« also rxHohed that the t'uioii Company- be asked t<> provide ;i faster Ktearner to arrive at Auckland at> Thursdav*, and to continue its voyage down (tw eu*S with the wutmrn cargo. ami that z deputation wait on the M«i<*ter with a request that, he should reduce 0;railway charges t>n imj>ortrd fruit*. An endeavour is to Iw made to bring the qmo turn before Sir Joseph Ward after Wife >'»n fereiic- had keen Mr Kennedy. <d the Union Company, »mi the Hon. It. McN'r.b. M>*»rs rblgftty and Co. iv]»!i under da:« t,omh.». 2i*t: -~" The h*| «f arrival* f»r fifth mp** ". w**u m 1..« which ojwn on tlie 29th »»►!., a. ri,«ed Tb" P«w snivels is Ave atijotmf-d •o £U,6uO bale*, <-f wh;ch TA.O&i Iwlts Live ilem forwards! dire.-*, u. in.-inufso tur-T*' at Horn* ami abroad. leaving (with oS.OCX} bsb-- carried, forward-from the last ».*Ti«-»i