Sugar For Urgent 1 Needs Only
(11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Refined sugar will be delivered today and tomorrow to customers most urgently needing it, according to a spokesman for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. It will be a considerable time before full deliveries of sugar are resumed to retailers.
Ten ships are now working under orders of the Minister of Shipping (Senator Ashley), and work on four others is expected to start at vai'ious times today. The Macquaries Sevedoring Company, against which the strike of stevedores was directed, controls work on 80 per cent of the interstate vessels and embraces all shipping companies other than the James Patrick Proprietary. Ltd., C. Sleigh, and the Union Company. The unloading of ships has been handed over to these and individual .companies of the Macquarie group, as the strike, in effect, is still continuing.
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Northern Advocate, 28 August 1947, Page 7
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