SERIOUS SHIPPING DELAYS
AUSTRALIAN WOOL FOR ENGLAND (Received October 19, 6.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 19. The Melbourne Herald says that serious delays have occurred in the shipping of Australian wool to England under the British purchase plan. It is learned that not a single bale of wool has been shipped abroad since the British Government announced in the first week of the war that it would buy the whole Australian wool clip. In the succeeding five weeks steamers left Australia with holds only partly filled, while other freighters have been held up in Australian ports for weeks awaiting cargoes. It is estimated that more than 1,000,000 bales have been lying in ports awaiting shipment for six weeks. Representatives of leading wool-sell-ing firms said the shipping delays were evidently due to the desire of the Central Wool Committee to postpone appraisement of the clip until the purchase price was ascertained.
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Southland Times, Issue 23953, 20 October 1939, Page 8
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