SHIPPING SITUATION MORE MINES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 17, 15 October 1918, Page 6

SHIPPING SITUATION

MORE MINES

I •" « — ; — The Hon. D. H. Guthrio stated yesterday that he hci received a further cablegram of a reassuring character regarding the shipping situation. The High l Commissioner had indicated that in the opinion of tha Food Jontroller the acute position that had' existed for some time past was likely to be considerably relieved. It was clear that a strong effort would be made next year to lift stocks of foodstuffs in New Zealand. The favourable developments that are taking plnco in the shipping situa- ■ tion as it affects New Zealand are not osactly defined in tho official statements, but it is • clear that the heavy deliveries from the American shipbuilding yards' and the favourable turn of the. war aro the important factors. Some economy in freezing space will be caused by the arrangement, announced in a cablegram this week, that 110 more Argentine meat shall bo < ent to the foroes in Egypt, New Zealand meat taking its place. It is understood that this aoplies to all Eastern forces, and the effect will be to 'give some of the meat carriers a shortened trip and prevent the waste of refrigerated space by transhipment in England.

The Naval Adviser to the New Zealand Government (.Captain Hall-Thomp-son) states that, •as the lesult of mine-sweeping operations. three morn moored mines have been discovered and destroyed in the northern mir.ed area. Also a mine has been jvaslied up on the beach four miles smith of the Sfanawatu River in the Foxton district. Another exploded bv contact with a rock Vtween Cape . Farewell f.n2 West Haven inlet. About thirty-one mines at least have now beer, accounted for. Measures have, been takqn to deal .with the mine at the Manawatu.-