SHIPS LOADING FOOD
OVERTIME WORK AT WEEK-END (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 8. Overtime will again be worked this week-end on two food ships loading for Britain. About 250 cargo workers, as well as harbour board employees and other port workers, will be engaged. Both ships, the Shaw Savill liner Ceramic and the Blue Star Line’s Timaru Star, will be finished during the week-end arid are expected to sail late on Sunday. The Ceramic is loading 110.000 freight carcases of meat and 145,000 boxes of butter, and the Timaru Star will carry 61,000 freight carcases. 160,000 boxes of butter and 13,400 crates of cheese. The ships, together with the Fordsdale, which sailed last Monday, were worked during last week-end and on Anniversary Day.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26651, 9 February 1952, Page 2
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