Strike Will Delay Car Deliveries

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31079, 7 June 1966, Page 14

Strike Will Delay Car Deliveries

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 6. People who have recently ordered new cars from Britain under the no-remittance scheme will meet with delays in delivery because of the British seamen’s strike.

One national firm, which Imports between 40 to 120 cars from Britain a month, estimates that the effects of the strike will start to be felt in 10 days to a fortnight. By then the strike will be about five weeks old—the time a cargo ship takes to reach New Zealand from Britain.

Car parts are not likely to be affected for some time. Other importers said they normally held stocks to carry

them over three months. Only a very long strike would create problems for them.

The strike is not yet causing any serious concern to farm products exporters, but shipping companies and travel agents are exercising caution. The delay to the liner Canberra could wreck the plans of many New Zealanders booked to sail from Auckland to Miami on July 2, to attend the Empire Games in Kingston, Jamaica. Included in this group is the wife of the New Zealand decathlon champion (R. Williams) his married sister, Yvette, and the mother of the woman sprinter, Brenda Matthews.

Unless the strike ends soon and the Canberra can leave England in the next few days, they may have to fly to Kingston if they wish to be there for the opening.