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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 1, 12 April 1919, Page 3

Dnmrg the war more than a million tons of fuel oil were carried from the United States to Great Britain by 761 caigo ships, specially fitted out to convoy oil in double bottoms or ballast tanks.

Auckland returned soldiers calling at the Defence Department on Tuesday to surrender military greatcoats in exchange for mufti allowance warrants, were requested to "call again another day" with this cumbersome article of equipment, as the local office had temporarily run but of the necessary printed- forms to enabled mufti to be purchased!—" Star."