COAL DIVERTED
RAILWAYS DEPARTMENT ORDER BUNKERS &F STRANDED VESSEL TO BE FILLED (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. While the vessel Sam Winged has been stolidly ploughing her way over the Pacific since October 8, bound from Portland (Oregon) for New Zealand with just over 7,000 tons of coal , for; the Railway Department—l,soo tons less than she was scheduled to take owing to a local strike—wireless messages and cable and telephone conversations have been in progress about her. ■ , 'V,.'. Lying at Honolulu since September 22, unable to move because of her enmty coal bunkers is the Empire Duchess. The British Ministry of: Transport has been making every attempt to get coal for her, even considering snipping some back from Singapore. Hearing of the Sam Winged they Bet cables going, with the result that the New Zealand Government agreed that that vessel shall be diverted to Honolulu to unload 700 tons of coal for the stranded Empire Duchess. The Ministry, which agreed to pay all extra expenses, expressed its warm appreciation of the co-operation of the New Zealand Government. .. ■
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Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 6
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181COAL DIVERTED Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 6
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