Steel Salvaged From The Jungle
WELLINGTON, Mon. (P.A.)—Working two 10-hour shifts in the stifling heat of New Guinea for more than a month and a half, some 25 Europeans and 400 natives loaded 7500 tons of steel on to the Wairata, which is at present discharging her cargo in Wellington. - The Wairata left New Zealand in the middle of December, carrying New Zealand engineers, lorry and crane drivers and full equipment, including welding gear, petrol'and oil.
Mr E. Hirschfeld, of the Union Manila facturing and Export Company, which chartered the vessel, and who was present, at the loading operation, said American and Australian wartime steel loaded on the ship was not easily# salvaged, as the jungle quickly took possession of anything lying there. He added that the area in the Pacific was so vast that it might .be years before all the material was recovered. Other shipments of steel will arrive from the New Hebrides and Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
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Northern Advocate, 28 February 1949, Page 5
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