BANANAS ARRIVE LATE AND ROTTEN.
SHIPPING TROUBLE CAUSES DELAY. Some very hard things were said by a Christchurch fruiterer this morning about those persons responsible for th shipping hold-up. ‘We ordered 100 cases of bananas from .Auckland,” he said, "but on account o? the shipping trouble they only sent us 40 cases. These were put on the Waipahi and should have reached us on Saturday morning. Instead of that the Waipahi was diverted to Timaru front Lyttelton, with the result that we did not get the bananas till last night. . . , , “Tt cost us £3 15s freight from Auckthat we had to pay £3 las Id to get them up by rail from Timaru. “But apart from having to pay double freight., the bananas arrived over three days late, and in consequence of having been shut up in the ship and then in trucks, half of them are rotten. “We have no chance of getting out of it without losing £2O on the shipment. “It is these strikes at Lyttelton that cause fruit to be dear in Christchurch.
This is the third time since Christmas that fruit has been held up owing to shipping trouble, not always at Lyttelton. It's the limit.’ ’
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17832, 28 April 1926, Page 5
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