STEEL FOR N.Z. FROM NEW GUINEA
WELLINGTON, February 28. Working two ten-hour shifts in stifling heat at New Guinea for more than a month and a-half, some 2o Europeans and 400 natives loaded 7500 tons of steel on to the Wairata, which is at present discharging cargo at Wellington. The Wairata left New Zealand . m 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 present at the loading operations, said the American and Australian war-time steel loaded on the ship was not easily salvaged, as the jungle quickly took possession of anything lying there. He added the area in the Facilic was so vast that it might be years until all the material was recovered. Other shipments of steel will arrive from New Hebrides and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
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Grey River Argus, 1 March 1949, Page 7
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159STEEL FOR N.Z. FROM NEW GUINEA Grey River Argus, 1 March 1949, Page 7
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