SHIPPED BY "PERMISSION."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1899, 6 November 1913, Page 8

SHIPPED BY "PERMISSION."

STRIKE COMMITTEE'S BACK DOWN

It is interesting to note that the racehorsos were shipped on the Maunganui yesterday by "permission" of tlio Strike Committee.

In the morning tho committeo had asolutely refused to entertain any proposal for shipping the horses. Subsequently word went round that the Maunganui was to be shifted from the Queen's Wharf to a berth at tho Railway Wharf, near H.M.S. P-sycho. Just after three o'clock information was received in Post Office Square that the mounted polico were en route for tho wharf, and a few minutes later the committee, recognising that discretion ;was t'lio better part of valour, posted a notice to tlio effect that as tlio United Federaion of Labour considered that no good purpose could be served by .stopping the shipment of racehorses, it had decided to allow them to be put on the Maunganui. Tlio' public learnt with some amusement of this act of grace on tho part of the Strike Committee, and the opinion was freely expressed that when tho mounted polico got to work the committee might find it necessary to grant "permission" for a good many other operations to proceed on the wharves.