Ship To Chathams This Week
A ship is expected at Lyt- ’ telton today to load ; urgently-needed supplies | and provisions for the Chatham Islands, said the ! member of Parliament for ■ Lyttelton (Mr T. M. McGuigan). . Mr McGuigan said he received a telegram on Monday night from the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Seath) acknowledging his own urgent telegram sent last Friday. In his telegram Mr . Seath said the matter of Chatham Islands supplies had; been given urgent attention] and a ship was due at Lyttel-’
'ton on Wednesday. Mr McGuigan said the imi mediate task was to get the (ship away. He had been as-! Jsured by the vice-president of, :the Lyttelton Waterside ]Workers' Union (Mr S. J. R. Wasley) that his members] . would leave “no stone unturned” in ensuring a quick ji loading of the vessel on its , arrival at the port. ~ “1 have advised the island j ] community accordingly and ■’am hopeful that the supplies: i and provisions urgently Ijneeded will reach the island-, i |ers with the least possible de-->lay,” he said.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32301, 20 May 1970, Page 5
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