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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 125, 24 February 1928, Page 12

Shipping in Bluff for the last fortnight has been very busy, a welcome fact to waterside workers particularly and to Bluff business people generally (writes tho correspondent of the “Southland News”). Few people realise the tremendous amount of exports disposed of during that short period, but when if is mentioned that some 25.000 bales wool, 14.464 cases c-heose. 2000 boxes butter, some 30.000 carcases mutton, not forgetting a few thousand cases milk, some hundreds of bales of flax, and sundries such as casks of tallow, pelts, creamoata. hides, etc., one conies Io realise the potentialities of Southland. A rough approximation of the value of the above products without exaggeration, places the monetary value in the vicinity of £700.000 . All these goods have been shipped in good order and condition within the last fortnight, and speakes volumes for (ho efficiency of local stores and the Railway Department. The latter department carried on without anv addition to the regular staff, and oue can do nothing less than give credit where credit is due. The waterside workers also did yeoman work at loading the various vessels, in some cases breaking records for prompt dispatch.