RATIONED FOODS FOR BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24902, 15 June 1946, Page 7

RATIONED FOODS FOR BRITAIN

CONTRIBUTION FROM NEW ZEALAND LONDON, June 13. “New Zealand in spite of her amazing production, is going short of some rationed goods in order to send more to Britain,” said the Deputy-Prime Minister (Mr W. Nash) when making a speech at a luncheon after the launching of the new refrigerated vessel Norfolk from John Brown’s yards at Clydebank. Mr Nash said that New Zealand, during the first five years of the war, sent Britain 1,800.000 tons of meat, 550,000 tons of butter, 635,000 tons of cheese, and 4.000,000 bales of wool.

"If we could get the same spirit of help operating, not only between our little country and Britain, but also between all countries throughout the world, it would be a much better world,” said Mr Nash.

Mrs Nash launched the Norfolk, which is a motor-vessel built tor the New Zealand Shipping Company with a designed speed of 17 knots for the food service between Australia, New Zealand and Britain. The chairman of the New Zealand Shipping Company (Mr S. F. Tallents) said that the company would go on with its building programme in spite of the greatly increased eosts, because it knew that trade between the Dominions and Britain must be carried on. Freedom of Information.—The drafting committee of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations Organisation approved the creation ot a special United Nations commission on freedom ot information and the press.—New York. June 14