FRUIT SHIPMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26617, 13 November 1947, Page 6

FRUIT SHIPMENT

TINNED AND DRIED VARIETIES ! ARRIVAL AT DUNEDIN The arrival at Dunedin yesterday of a consignment of 1200 tions of dried and tinned fruits will be welcome to grocers and their customers alike. The shipment arrived in the Indhwells, from Melbourne, which also brought 5000 tons of wheat. The market has been completely bare of tinned fruits for a considerable period, and supplies ofV dried fruits have been extremely limited. With the approach of Christmas these commodities will be eagerly 'sought, the latter being specially welcome for the purposes of Christmas cooking. The wheat section of the Inchwell’s cargo is one of the, largest shipments to be unloaded here. One of a fleet of ships owned by S. T. Williamson, a New Zealander, now living in Hongkong, the Inch wells is under charter to the Australian Government. She is commanded! by Captain Donald, 0.8. E., who 'won his award when attempting to j run the German blockade from Sweden to England during the wqr. ■ Setting out from Gothenburg with special steel from which ball-bearings were to be manufactured, 12 ships to get through, but 10 were intercepted by the Germans. The crews! managed to blow up these 10 ships,. preventing their valuable cargoes from falling into the hands of the enemy.-.; Captain Donald subsequently spent four years in a prison camp. The Inchwells, which has a gross tonnage of 7777, was built ip 1920. Her port of registry is Hongkong, and her crew is Chinese, excepting the officers and engineers.