SHIPPING IN ANZAC AREA

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23742, 14 September 1942, Page 6

SHIPPING IN ANZAC AREA

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, September 11. Mr Ralph J. Chandler, of California, acting as representative of the War Shipping Administration in the Anzac area, at present in Auckland, brought a message of goodwill to New Zealand from the United States. He said that his mission was to inquire into * the shipping position with a view to seeing whether it was possible to have ships turned round more expeditiously during the war period. He appreciated the difficulties of the problem facing the United Nations and was imbued with the spirit of co-opera-tion and co-ordination, which, he said, was crystallising in Australia as far as loading and discharging ships was concerned, and was anxious that the same spirit should animate all those in New Zealand who had anything to do with shipping. He included everybody in his survey—from those at the top down to the most humble worker on the waterfront. “I bring a message of co-operation,” he said. “We want to turn ships round speedily. We don’t want to lose an hour. It is vital to success that we keep tonnage moving so that we can get through with the job we’ve tackled. The key to the problem is quick dispatch, and I appeal to watersiders, as well as to everybody else in a position to help, to bring about this desirable end during the war emergency. It is vital to victory. The whole war effort depends on this.”