QUICK LOADING
By Telegraph—Press Association. NELSON, April 20. A record was put up in loading the Rakaia with frozen meat at Nelson wharf. Some of the railway wagons were ' discharged in nine minutes, and the average loading was a thousand carcases an hour, which, it is said, constitutes a record for a New Zealand port. The loading of fourteen thousand carcases will be completed this evening. The local railway management and method are much praised by the Bhip's authorities.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3169, 21 April 1909, Page 5
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79QUICK LOADING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3169, 21 April 1909, Page 5
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