RATS IN SHIP
Delay To Loading (N.Z. Press Association) INVERCARGILL, January 6. Rats aboard the Nationalist China freighter Tatung at present in Bluff are holding up the loading of about 6300 tons of the last overseas shipment of sprouted Southland wheat.
When the ship berthed at Bluff at 10 a.m. today from Brisbane it was found that its fumigation certificate had expired—and an inspection by Health Department inspectors showed rats in the accommodation area.
Fumigation equipment is being rushed south from Christchurch so that the Tatung can be cleared of rats. It should arrive tomorrow. Mr J. N. Armstrong, shipping manager of the ship’s agents in Invercargill, said this evening that the loading of the wheat would be delayed for only two days at the most. The shipment is the third and last of sprouted wheat to leave Southland for overseas. In all, 25,700 tons of grain of the 60,000 tons will have gone mostly to Taiwan. The rest of the wheat has gone mainly to the North Island.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31880, 7 January 1969, Page 12
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