Shipping Space For Beer
Indignation at the practice of crowding urgently-needed building materials off cargo ships in favour of consignments of beer, Avas expressed by Mr J. W. Graham, a Canterbury delegate at the annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Builders’ and Contractors’ Industrial Association of Employers. “Time after time, the South Island has been cut off from supplies of wall boarding arid timber because shipping space has been occupied by North Island beer,” he said. “Meanwhile, builders all over the South Island are waiting desperately for materials from the north, . and i many jobs are being held up.—P.A. ‘
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 116, 26 February 1947, Page 8
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