REFUGEES’ EFFECTS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 137, 5 March 1940, Page 8

REFUGEES’ EFFECTS

Cargo Of Captured German Ship TRANSHIPMENT TO NEW ZEALAND LIKELY (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. March 4. A consignment of 330 tons of cargo from Germany to New Zealand was included in the cargo of the HamburgAmerica line motor-ship Heidelberg,, which was captured by a British warship at the end of last week and towed to Trinidad. The Heidelberg, of 6530 tons, left Germany in July, and was to pick up the bulk of her general cargo for New Zealand in the United States. When war broke out she put for shelter into lite Dutch West Indies port of Aruba, where site remained till she put to sea last. week. Advice recently received from the British Vice-Consulate at Aruba by Henderson and Macfarlane, Ltd., formerly Auckland agents for the Ham-burg-Anicrika Line, stated that the Heidelberg had 112 tons of cargo for Auckland and 218 tons divided between Wellington and Lyttelton. The cargo is furniture arid other household of German refugees now resident in the Dominion. It is probable that, the cargo will lie transhipped to New Zealand from Trinidad. Several thousand tons of cargo from Ilani'biirg and Gulf of Mexico ports for Now Zealand delivery still remain in the North Gorman Lloyd steamer Frankfurt, which was diverted to Chile when war broke out as she was crossing the Pacific to the Dominion. Endeavours are still being made for the release of the cargo, which includes a large consignment of sulphur.