RELIEF SUPPLIES
SHIPMENT FOR JAVA 270 TONS BEING LOADED (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 15. The first vessel to take relief supplies direct from New Zealand .to Indonesia, the hospital ship Tasman, is now loading 270 tons of tinned butter and evaporated milk for Java at Auckland. The cargo is being consigned by the Netherlands Government and it was originally intended l.t should be dispatched last October bv .the Alcinous, which the Wellington waterside workers refused to load. Under the Geneva Convention, the Tasman, as a hospital ship, is permitted to carry a relief cargo of foodstuffs and the 270 tons will occupy most of the limited freight space left since her conversion from a passenger-cargo liner. Under the circumstances, no objection to working the ship was raised by the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union. ‘We are satisfied the cargo is purely food supplies, ’ stated tile president, Mr IT. Barnes, ‘and they will accordingly be loaded.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21947, 15 February 1946, Page 2
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