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INSULATED SHIPS

NOW IN PLENTIFUL SUPPLY. A reassuring statement on the supply of insulated ships for our' frozen produce trade was made by the Prime Minister' in the House yesterday. . Mr. Massey said he had been communicated with by the Overseas Shipping Company, who had informed him that for the month of October there would be eleven insulated ships available. For the three months of July, August, and September there would be 25.ships, and the eleven for October would make the total 36 ships for the next four months. He thought this should be very welcome news to many of the people connected with the export of frozen meat, and should remove all existing anxiety in-, their minds about getting our produce away for a very long time to come. These ships would lift about three million freight carcasses..

It was rather a coincidence, he said, that in a Bill to come before the House the Government were asking for power to commandeer ships. That power the Government' had not under tJie present law. ' Perhaps it was fortunate for him that this was not generally known, because he had really prevented a ship from leaving New Zealand for, a little time some months ago;

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2503, 2 July 1915, Page 7

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INSULATED SHIPS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2503, 2 July 1915, Page 7

INSULATED SHIPS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2503, 2 July 1915, Page 7

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