UNLOADING OF CEMENT
WORK AT WELLINGTON (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 16. Servicemen will begin unloading cement to-morrow which will be railed to centres north of Wellington. Servicemen started to load meat and dairy produce aboard the Arawa to-day, the fourth ship to be loaded for the United Kingdom since the strike began. Worn also started aboard the Kanna, whicn will take 1000 tons of general cargo to Dunedin and 550 tons to Bluff, and on the Gale, which will take 750 tons to Lyttelton. The Gale will return to Wellington with flour. ( To-morrow 455 servicemen will work 10 ships—the Delphic, Arawa, Stonegate, Gale, Aspasia, Nomikos, Glenlyon, Kaiapoi, Mamaku, Kanna, and Durham. It is hoped to put the Wairua on the Wellington-Blenheim run. Wellington’s gas position “remains unaltered.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26398, 17 April 1951, Page 6
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