BASELESS RUMOUR
NO TANKERS TURNED AWAY FROM NEW ZEALAND. STATEMENT BY MEMBER FOR MASTERTON. Stating that his attention had been drawn to a letter on “Milk Zoning,” which appeared in our open columns yesterday, the member for Masterton (Mr J. Robertson) observed that, while the rest of the letter did not merit attention. it repeated, in the form of a question, an unfounded rumour which should not be passed over. The writer of the letter asked if Mr Robertson “would tell me how many ships laden with benzine have arrived on our shores this last 12 months and have . . been turned away through lack of foreign currency and sent on to Australia or elsewhere?” “The answer.” said Mr Robertson, “is ‘None whatever.’ There is no foundation for the statement made —a statement which might fairly be called subversive and certainly is unworthy of anyone professing patriotic motives.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 4
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147BASELESS RUMOUR Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 4
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