SHEEP OWNERS AND RUSSIAN TRADE
TO THE EMTOB. OP THE W.KSP. Sir,—l have read with interest letters in "The Press" of October 4 and 5 on the subject of Russian petrol. Some weeks ago there appeared in your paper photographs of a ship flying a foreign flag, and of her captain. I was disgusted to read that this vessel was a tanker, which was at Lyttelton with a cargo of Russian petrol. I presume that this consignment was ordered by a local firm ■ or organisation, as I do not imagine that the major oil companies would require it,. I think that every Briton old enough to remember the World War has the greatest admiration for the personnel of the Empire's mercantile marine; which, in these days of slump in trade and subsidised foreign shipping, is suffering most acutely from unemployment. ' There is a reason—good, bad, or indifferent—for most things, and I only hope that the importers of this
petrol have a good one for it being carried to New Zealand in a foreign ship. Whoever they are, perhaps they will state it.—Yours, etc., D. G. H. BUSH. Parnassus. October 5,. 1933.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20979, 6 October 1933, Page 17
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