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AUCKLAND. Wed. (Sp.)—Five refrigerated food ships carrying 40,000 tons of food to Britain will leave the Dominion within the next 48 hours. The Port Pirie and the Port Chalmers will sail on Thursday from Wellington for London with full cargoes of refrigerated food and parcels. From Lyttelton tomorrow the Port Huon sails for Liverpool, via Panama, and the Port Hobart for London, via Capetown. The Somerset sails from Auckland tomorrow for Liverpool. On Friday the Paparoa will depart for Cardiff.
All going well, these ships should be in Britain some days before Christmas. Watersiders on board the Port Pirie in Wellington yesterday were hard at work to ensure the vessel’s departure tomorrow. In No. 2 hatch, where gangs were loading cheese, sling's were dropping down at the rate of one a minute. The men worked until after the 12 o’clock whistle. In No. 3 hold similar activity was evident in the stowing of mutton carcases.
The ships’ officers said that the rate of loading had been very good. The cargo had arrived in great quantities and the watersiders had worked with a will to get the food away.
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Northern Advocate, 12 November 1947, Page 6
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