HARD WORK IN HOT NEW GUINEA JUNGLE TO RECOVER STEEL
(P.A.) WELLINGTON. Feb. 28. Working two 10-hour shifts in stifling heat in New Guinea for more than a month and a half, about 25 Europeans and 400 natives loaded 7500 tons of steel on to the Wairata which is at present discharging her cargo at Wellington. The Wairata left New Zealand in the .middle of December carrying New Zealand engineers, lorry and crane drivers and full equipment including, welding gear, petrol and oil. Mr. E. Hirschfeld, of the Union Manufacturing and Export Company, which chartered the vessel and who was pressent at the loading operation, said the American and Australian wartime steel loaded on the ship was not easily salvaged as the jungle quickly took possession of anything lying there.
He added that the area in the Pacific was so vast that it might be years until all the material was recovered.
Other shipments of steel will arrive from the New Hebrides and the Gilbert and Ellice islands.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22883, 1 March 1949, Page 6
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