WORSE HANDICAP THAN OCEAN FREIGHT.
Mr. H. C. Lassen, an American interested in fruit-growing, interviewed in Hawkes Bay, remarked that regarding transport facilities, growers in New Zealand often felt that they were severely handicapped because they were so far from the English market, but in actual fact they paid less freight than did many of the growers in the western nortion of the United States. FruiJ-groweri there were compelled to send their fruit across the country by rail and pay high freights for 3500 miles, with the result that the total charges came to two dollars eight cents a case, or more than the cost of sending fruit from New Zealand to England. If New Zealand wanted to retain her lead in the apple world, she would have to on the extra fancy" grades of apples, and as that was where the money lay, she was in an extremely fortunate position.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 11
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151WORSE HANDICAP THAN OCEAN FREIGHT. Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 11
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