RELIEF SUPPLIES FOR JAVA
TASMAN TO TAKE MILK AND BUTTER
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Feb, 14. The first vessel to take relief supplies direct from New Zealand to Indonesia, the Netherlands hospital ship Tasman, is now loading 270 tons of tinned butter and evaporated milk for Java at Auckland. The cargo is being consigned by the Netherlands Government, and it was originally intended that it should be despatched last October by the Alcinous, which Wellington watersiders refused to load. Under the Geneva convention the Tasman, as a hospital ship, is permitted to carry a relief cargo of foodstuffs, and the 270 tons will occupy most of the limited freight space left since her conversion from a passenger cargo liner. In the circumstances no objection to working the ship was raised by the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union.
“We are satisfied that the cargo is purely food supplies,” said the president, Mr H. Barnes, “and they will accordingly be loaded.”
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24801, 15 February 1946, Page 4
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