FLOWERS FOR LONDON' BY COASTAL VESSELS
(Recd. 7.30 p.m.) London, Feb. 28. Since the Government has banned the carrying of flbwers by rail owing to war demands on rail traffic, thousands of bunches of daffodils and other spring flowers, valued by retail trade at £3OOO, reached Liverpool from the West County after a voyage in coastal ships and are selling at half a crown a bunch, compared with 15s previously. London flower-sellers applaud the arrangement, as the coastal boats are sailing in ballast. They say the ships can bring a flower cargo witrout wasting manpower, petrol, rubber or tyres. The Ministry of Transport cannot object to this.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 50, 2 March 1943, Page 5
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