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Refrigerated export ship

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Refrigerated export ship

Pallets of kiwifruit are being loaded into the refrigerated hold of a charter vessel at the port of Tauranga.

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Dunmore Press

Reference: Roly Earp, The kiwifruit adventure. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1988, p. 64

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Hugh Campbell and Julia Haggerty, Kiwifruit – Exports, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17748/refrigerated-export-ship (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Hugh Campbell and Julia Haggerty, published 1 March 2009.