HUGE FRUIT EXPORTS
MILLION CASES SHIPPED (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, To-day. It is expected that by the end of the current fruit export season, New Zealand will have sent 1,000,000 cases of apples and pears to the overseas markets. The steamer Turakina, . which left here yesterday, carried 27,454 cases of apples which brought the total export for the past four months up to 925,216 cases of apples and 54,247 crates of pears. The steamers Tamaroa, Tasmania and Port Dunedin will carry the season's final shipments aggregating 38,400 cases of apples. The quantity of fruit exported this season will be 1,017,563 packages, comprising 963,616 cases of apples and 54,247 crates of pears. Practically all cf the fruit will have been exported to the United Kingdom, with the exception of 60,372 cases of apples and 300 crates of pears for Montevideo, 23,753 cases of apples for Rio de Janeiro, and 10,921 cases of apples for Montreal.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 373, 6 June 1928, Page 14
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