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Zeebrugge-Harwich Train Ferry.
220 night and early morning, 1 Sunday and 24 other
visits to Bishopsgate Goods Station, were made by the Food
Inspectors, for the purpose of examining 3592 trucks containing
foodstuffs arriving from the Continent. These
consisted of:-
Italian foodstuffs 2,707 trucks containing
almonds, apricots, aubergines,
beans, carrots, cherries,
cauliflowers, cheese, chestnuts,
filberts, grapes, lemons,
lettuce, mandarines, melons,
onions, peaches, pears, peas,
pimentos, plums, potatoes and
walnuts.
Hungarian foodstuffs 706 trucks containing ducks,
fowls, geese, hares, turkeys,
bacon, eggs, liver paste,
apricots, melons and canned
vegetables.
Belgian foodstuffs 173 trucks containing
cherries, endives, fish,
grapes, pears, canned and
frozen vegetables.
Spanish foodstuffs 4 trucks containing chestnuts.
The total weight of the foodstuffs examined was 27,221
tons 19 cwts.
The following were found to be unsound and were stopped
and destroyed:
1450 packages Belgian cherries, 400 packages Italian
apricots, 200 packages Italian grapes, 499 packages
Italian peaches, 13 cases Hungarian turkeys and
75 cases of Hungarian chickens.
The total weight of this was 20 tons lOcwts. 3qrs. 0lbs.
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