CARGO FROM AUSTRALIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 September 1918, Page 5

CARGO FROM AUSTRALIA

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 26. The Hon. A. M. Myers stated;,; with (reference to the complaint that rice had been shut out of steamers trading from Australia to New Zealand, that the last three boats trroin Sydney had brought over 2000 bags of rice. The "Minister sadd^-with regard to the position in general, that there was more cargo awaiting shipment at Australian ports than tonnage to lift it. He had been requested to draw up a list giving the order of preference, but he found, on enquiry, that the merchandise usually flowing from Australia to New. Zealand is of a seaisonal nature. For'instance, this month he requested agents at Sydney and Melbourne to "favorably regard applications for space for 'superphosphates, potatoes, onions, pollard and lines of Beed grain. This list will be (reviewed early next month.