CARGO FOR NEW ZEALAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1940, Page 7

CARGO FOR NEW ZEALAND

ABOARD CAPTURED GERMAN SHIPS. MOSTLY REFUGEES’ EFFECTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 4. A consignment of 330 tons of cargo from Germany to New Zealand was included in the cargo of the HamburgZimerika line motor-ship Heidelberg, which was captured by a British warship at the end of last week and towed to Trinidad. The Heidelberg. 6530 tons, left Germany m July, and was to pick up the bulk of her general cargo for New Zealand in the United States. When war broke out she put for shelter into the Dutch West Inclies port of Aruba, where she remained till she put to sea last week. Advice recently received from the British Vice-Consulate at Aruba by Henderson and Macfarlane, Ltd., formerly Auckland agents for the Ham-burg-Amerika Line, stated that the Heidelberg had 112 tons of cargo for Auckland and 218 tons divided between Wellington and Lyttelton. The cargo is furniture and other household effects of German refugees now resident in the Dominion. It is probable that the cargo will be transhipped to New Zealand from Trinidad.

Several thousand tons of cargo from Hamburg and Gulf of Mexico ports for New Zealand delivery still remain ii. the North German Lloyd steamer Frankfurt, which was diverted to Chile when war broke out as she was crossing the Pacific to the Dominion. Endeavours arc still being made for the release of the cargo, which includes : largo consignment of sulphur.