SINKING OF N.Z. TRADE SHIPS
MR. GOODFELLOW’S STATEMENT BELIEVED TO BE AN EXAGGERATION Wellington, IVfay 13. Although official figures are not available, it is learned in authoritative circles in Wellington that the statement reportedly made to the New York correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph by Mr. William Goodfellow, managing-director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., Auckland, that 40 per cent, of the ships carrying New Zealand dairy products to England had been sunk, causing food to accumulate in New Zealand, is a considerable exaggeration. Since the end of November the losses of ships actually engaged in the New Zealand
trade have been very small compared with those for the previous 12 months.
Mr. Goodfellow, who is flying to London in an endeavour to obtain shipping space for surplus New Zealand primary products, is reported to have said that 20 ships with refrigerated space would relieve the position.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 112, 15 May 1941, Page 8
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