Wheat For China
(NX. Press Assn —ciipi/rtoht) SYDNEY, March 7. Twenty-one thousand tons of wneat will be shipped to China from Sydney this week to help overcome an acute famine sweeping the country. The grain is part of a huge order placed by China with the Australian Government. It will be loaded on to the vessel Cresington Court, which will leave for North China, the worst hit area, on Friday. It is expected to reach China in two weeks.
A spokesman for the ship's agents in Sydney the Adelaide Steamship Company, said it was the largest wheat cargo ever loaded on o a ship in Australia.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29766, 8 March 1962, Page 8
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