PACKING APPLES.
TRIAL BETWEEN CHAMPIONS. An apple-packing match for £20 a-sitlo and tho championship of tho Huon was decided at Huonville, Tasmania, recently, tho competitors being Richard Leitch, of Franklin, and Walter Page, of Huonville. They had to wrap and pack fifty cases of apples. Some hundreds of people were present to see the-match. Page won by about 10 minutes 25 sccoiuls. His times were: Ton cases, 20min. lUsoe.; 2U cases, dlinin. 23sec.; . 30 .cases, (ilium. 42sec.; >10 cases, 79min. 40;ec.; 50 cases, 9Smin. lGsec. This is believed to be a record, being a little under two minutes per case.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 1 May 1913, Page 8
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100PACKING APPLES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 1 May 1913, Page 8
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