Coastal Ships Take Flowers to Market
Received Monday, 7.15 p.m. LONDON, Feb.’ 28. Since the Government has banned the carrying of flowers by rail owing to war demands on rail trafiic, thousands of bunches of daffodils and other spring flowers valued bv the retail trade at £3OOO, have reached Liverpool from the West Country after a voyage in coastal ships. They are selling for half-a-crown a bunch compared with 15s previously. London flower-sellers applaud the arrangements as the coastal boats were sailing in ballast. They sav ships can bring a flower cargo without wasting manpower, petrol and rubber tyres. The Ministry of Transport cannot object to this.
Ticket number 26012 held by Mr. C. L. Cork, Glenbervie, Whangarei, won the thoroughbred yearling colt prize art union in aid of patriotic funds, drawn to day in Wellington. Receipts from the sale of tickets amounted to £1320. The colt, given by Mr. R. A. Smith, of Waipawa, is by St. Boswells from Kippit Lee, rlam of the colt War Effort which Mr. Smith presented in 1941, and which was offered as a prize in an art union.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 51, 2 March 1943, Page 5
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