LOSS TO FREEZING INDUSTRY.
-Press Association
By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, Sept. 29. The Auckland agents of the Taru, Messrs Henderson and Macfarlane, Ltd., received radio udvice last week that the ship had cleared Lisbon for Oapetown on, September 23 after loading 1400 tons of general -cargo, ineluding a large amount of cork eonsigned to the freezing works in New Zealand. After calling at South Afriean and." Australian ports, the ship was due at Auckland about the middle of November. Al.though a lar.ge shipment of -cork ari'ived in New Zealand during April in the Norwegian vessel Troja, and several small consignments transhipped from Portugal through Britain have reached this eountry, the wai'-created shortage still exists and the loss of this cargo is expeeted to eause delays'in the ex-. pansion programmes of several freezing companies. It is used for insulation in freezing chambers.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 September 1946, Page 5
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