It is learned-on good authority fsi';.-••-The Argu3) that over 45,000 lons ef S wheat, or more than half a million hay; will bo shipped from Fremantle to potion the Mediterranean shortly, by a flci •■■ .of steamers whieii are now on their win ■ to Australia. That the wheat is vgently needed to relieve the fami'v' ~.r . ditions now threatening some of the European peoples is deront-e ■;;:<•;! - composition of the fleet which will ww it, and also by the fact that none • ; the. steamers will come further east tlv.;v Fremantle. The vessels have beijn hastUdiverted from other important trade routes, their nearness to Australia being the chief factor governing their inclusion in ,the southward-bound grouj> Among them are freighters belonging to the British-India Steam Navigation Co., and detached from service in Indian waters to make the trip; two German stealers which were requisitioned by tin.. British Government on the outbreak of war; a steamer flying the flag' of theTatem S.N. Co. of. Cardiff, and cavrocarriers of the International and Eliqv man and Bucknall lines respectively.
Motor Cyclists enquire at any gai-att or cycle shop as W sizes anii prices o* the "CLKTOHER HRBADkoUGHT' MOTOR OYGSM ifRE. u
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1918, Page 4
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195Page 4 Advertisements Column 8 Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1918, Page 4
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