AUSTRALIAN SUPPLIES
GOULD NOT FILL SHIPPING ALLOTTED DIVERSION TO NEW ZEALAND (Rec. 11.6 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 3. A shipping company executive revealed that Australia had not been able to provide enough food for Britain to fill the shipping spaee allotted to it. The deficiency was 6,000,000 cuhic feet, but this cargo space was not lost to Britain. Thirteen ships which could have loaded in Australia, if food had been available, bad been diverted to New Zealand during February, March, and April. New Zealand reports were that all surplus space could be filled with additional meat and other food, and so far this had been carried out. The shipping executive claimed that there had always been more space than was required for the food available in Australia for export to Britain.
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Evening Star, Issue 26067, 3 April 1947, Page 7
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130AUSTRALIAN SUPPLIES Evening Star, Issue 26067, 3 April 1947, Page 7
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