RELIEF SUPPLIES
CARGO FOR JAVA TINNED FOOD FROM NEW ZEALAND (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 14. The first vessel to take relief supplies direct from New Zealand to Indonesia, the Netherlands hospital, ship Tasman, is now loading 270 tons of tinned butter and evaporated milk for Java at Auckland. The cargo is being consigned by the Netherlands Government, and it was originally intended that it should be despatched last October by the Alcinous, which the Wellington watersiders refused to load. Under the Geneva Convention the Tasman, as a hospital ship, is permitted to carry relief cargo of foodstuffs, and the 270 tons will occupy most of the limited freight space left since her conversion from a passenger to a cargo liner. In the circumstances no objection to working the ship was raised by the Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union. “ We are satisfied the cargo is purely food supplies,” stated the president, Mr H. Barnes, “and they will accordingly be loaded.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 4
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