SUPPLIES OF WHEAT
CARGO BY HESPEROS. AEBIVAL OFF NEW ZEALAND. (Pbb United Pbess Association.) AUCKLAND, February 22. Shortly after midnight on Saturday the Norwegian steamer Hesperos was sighted off Tiritiri. She has on board about 100,000 bushels of -wheat, purchased in Canada by the New Zealand Government. The lighthouse-keeper was not able satisfactorily to communicate with the vessel. The pilot boat went out to give the steamer orders to proceed to Lyttelton. The Hesperos left St. John on January 3. Some 205,000 of the 585.000 bushels of ■wheat purchased in Australia and Canada by the Government have already arrived at New Zealand ports.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16315, 23 February 1915, Page 5
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