JAPANESE SHIP DUE TODAY

Southland Times, Issue 24499, 29 July 1941, Page 6

JAPANESE SHIP DUE TODAY

DELAYED ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND CARGO OF MERCHANDISE AND TIMBER (P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 28. The Japanese motor-vessel Yamagiku Maru, which was expected to arrive at midnight tonight from Kobe via Noumea, has been delayed by unfavourable weather off the New Zealand coast and is now expected tomorrow morning. The ship has a cargo of timber and general merchandise. The suggestion that the ship might not call at New Zealand because of recent developments in Japan was not considered likely by the Auckland agents, Russell and Somers, Limited. If discharge is started tomorrow morning it is expected that all the Auckland cargo will be landed by Wednesday morning and that the vessel will then call at Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin. Auckland importers with consignments on the ship said they had received no information whether they could take possession of their goods. The method of payment for the goods was also obscure as no substitute supplies were available. It was stated by the managel' of one large furnishing business that the cutting off of supplies of Japanese timber would place his firm in an awkward position. Supplies, although of no great monetary value, were urgently needed and wert allowed under fifth period import licences.