Danger Of Short Supplies
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To The Islands
THE fact that all kinds of essential goods are now in increasingly short supply in Australia and New Zealand is creating a problem in many Pacific Islands which depend on those countries for supplies.
It was reported in Sydney at the end of June, for example, that the store of meat for the 100 Europeans in Honiara, in the Solomons, had practically disappeared, and that it now was practically impossible there to obtain such things as hardware and building materials.
Behind the scenes, in ports like Sydney and Auckland, there is a constant scramble, growing in intensity, to get a wide range of goods for shipment to the Islands. . , The position in Australia is becoming acute. The combined effect of strikes, Red go-slow-ism, the 40-hour week, and general laziness and inefficiency, is creat ing a grave problem throughout Australia.
And there is no relief in sight.