BLOW TO BUSINESS
IMPORTANT CARGO CARRIED
(By Telcgrapb—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
News of the stranding of the Waikduaiti caused consternation among the business community, for a considerable quantity of much-needed merchandise is on board the vessel. Among the cargo is a "considerable quantity of tea for local merchants upon which they were relying for much-needed stocks to carry them over until well on into the new yearThere is also a considerable quantity of rum on the ship, t a big proportion of the new season's figs,. and, most important of all, a quantity of cream of tartar, local stocks of which are practically exhausted. If these and other merchandising lines are completely ruined it will mean a,big loss to traders, possibly not from a monetary point of view, but because in this period when licences-to import are I necessary and goods are hard to pro-I cure? there may be very little prospect of replenishing them
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 131, 30 November 1939, Page 9
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156BLOW TO BUSINESS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 131, 30 November 1939, Page 9
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