FRUIT FOR EXPORT
Government Purchases In Hawke’s Bay 45,000 CASES IN HAND Dominion Special Service. HASTINGS, May 8. Fruit in hand purchased in Hawke’s Bar under the Government fruit-purchase plan for export amounts to 45,000 cases. In the Hastings assembly shed some OuOf cases, weighing over 150 tons, are stacked as high as the rafters of the spacious building. Every available foot of space has been taken up, and as fast as accumulated stocks are loaded on to railway trucks fresh supplies come forward from orchards by motor-lorry. It is three mouths since the Government’s plan came into operation, and for a time attention was directed mainly toward distribution, of the fruit to internal markets, but of late there has been a demand from headquarters for export supplies. and the hulk of the fruit now in hand is export stock.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 191, 9 May 1940, Page 5
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140FRUIT FOR EXPORT Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 191, 9 May 1940, Page 5
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