SPECIAL SHIPPING ARRANGEMENTS
TRANSPORT OF FOOD TO BRITAIN
From Our Own Reporter WELLINGTON. September 26. “As far as New Zealand is concerned, our greatest need is food, and the more you can increase supplies the better it will be for us,” said Viscount Addison. Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, at a press conference in Wellington on Saturday. Lord Addison said that special shipping arrangements were being made by Great Britain for the transport of food from New Zealand and Australia, and New Zealand could make its best contribution to the United Kingdom by filling those ships when they arrived and turning them around as quickly as possible. “We will purchase your food eagerly because we can buy in the sterling areas readily enough,” Lord Addison said.
Britain would be able to ship all the food New Zealand could supply, for the British Government was now working on special arrangements with New Zealand and Australia whereby every possible ship would be diverted. Lord Addison said. One of the limiting factors was refrigeration space. Lord Addison referred to Britain’s shipbuilding programme. Besides undertaking a vast amount of repair work, Great Britain this year was building 2,000,000 tons of new shipping, or more than the rest of the shipbuilding yards in the world put together. During the war Britain Jost 12,000.000 tons of shipping, and allowing for replacements. finished the war with 7.000,000 tons less than when the war started.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25301, 29 September 1947, Page 8
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