JAPANESE VESSEL DELAYED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 259, 29 July 1941, Page 8

JAPANESE VESSEL DELAYED

Expected At Auckland

Today

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 28.

The Yamashita Kisen Kaisya motorvessel Yamagiku Maru, wich was. expected to arrive at midnight tonight from Kobe via Noumea, has been delayed by unfavourable weather off the New Zealand coast, and is now expected early tomorrow morning. The ship has a cargo of timber and general merI ehandlze. A suggestion that the ship might not call at New Zealand because of the recent developments in Japan was not considered likely by the Auckland agents, Russell and Somers, Ltd. If discharge is started tomorrow morning, it is expected that all Auckland cargo will be landed by Wednesday morning, and that the vessel will then call at Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. Auckland importers with consignments in the ship said they had re ceived no information whether they could take possession of their goods. The method of payment for the goods was also obscure. As'no substitute supplies were available, it was stated by the manager of one large furnishing business that the cutting off of supplies of Japanese timber would place his firm in an awkward position. The supplies, though of no great monetary value, are urgently needed, and are the last allowed under the fifth period import licence.