SUPPLY OF SHIPS.
'•'; "'[PsSt' Pskss-'As-sociaTiow?] ' : '- f '■ WEI.LIKCTON, January ,'27._ Referring to the shortage of shipping the Prime Minister informed a reporter to-day that it had been suggested that the Imperial authorities were about to requisition:} two vessels engaged in the. Now Zealand trade. Ho had communicated:with.the Board.of- Trade, 011 the silbject «iid had- received a--com-munication from London"'to the effect that one of the ships mentioned would not be interfored with, while the other would not be required to givo more than a few weeks to tho Imperial service. '<■■ v ■■;. ~,".:.'
This news, said Mr Massey,. was satisfactory, as indicating. that tho. Dominion was not going to be deprived of tho services of vessels at this juncture.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17077, 28 January 1916, Page 9
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115SUPPLY OF SHIPS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17077, 28 January 1916, Page 9
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