SHIPPING REPARATIONS
MOTOR VESSEL FOR DOMINION SOME REPAIRS NECESSARY (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent) (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, June 14. Discussions are at present proceeding on whether the 1400-ton German motor ship Gaarden, which was handed over to New Zealand as shipping reparations, should be sold in Britain or sent to New Zealand. The Gaarden is at present at Tayport, on the Firth of Tay, where she was taken after the German capitulation. The vessel is reported to have some damage to her bottom, which requires inspection. This is being carried out. The Gaarden, which was built in 1943-41. was used chiefly as a fleet service ship by the Germans and saw litle service, She is fitted with torpedo decks, and the crew's accommodation requires some alteration if the ship is to be, used in New Zealand waters. It is reported that the amount of tonnage allowed New Zealand as reparations has been considerably reduced because a number of the largest New Zealand ships lost during the war were of British registry The original tonnage allocation to New Zealand was reduced when the Egyptions succeeded in establishing claims of considerable losses, and as a result the total amount of German tonnage available for distribution has been decreased.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26179, 15 June 1946, Page 7
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